GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  26, 1891.

NO.  414

YOL.  8
PEOPLE'S  SAVINGS  BANK.

Cor. Monroe  and  Ionia Sts.,
[  $100,000. 
Depositors’  Security,  $200,000.

Liability,

OFFICERS.
Thomas Hefferan, President.
Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President.
Charles M. Heald, 2d Vice-Presided 
Charles B. Kelsey, Cash*0*
DIRECTORS.H. C. Russell 
John Murray 
J. H. Gibbs 
C. B. Judd 
H.  F. Hastings 
C. M. Heald 
Don J. Leathers 

D. D. Cody 
S. A. Morman 
Jas. G. McBride 
Wm. McMullen 
D. E. Waters 
Jno. Patton, Jr 
Wm. Alden Smith

Thomas  Hefferan.

Four per cent. Interest paid on time certificates 
and  savings  deposits.  Collections  promptly 
made  at  lowest  rates.  Exchange  sola  on New 
York, Chicago. Detroit and all foreign countries 
Money transferred by mail  or telegraph.  Muni 
cipal  and  county bonds  bought and  sold.  Ac­
counts of mercantile firms  as  well as banks and 
bankers solicited
We  invite  correspondence or  personal  inter 
view with a view to business relations.

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Hungarian,  Millet,  Red  Top;  all  kinds 
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We pay the  highest  price for Eggs,  at 
all  times.  We  sell  Egg  Cases  No.  1 at 
85c, Egg  case fillers,  10  sets  in a case at 
$1.25 a case.

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WA.NTJBD !

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sand  cords  of  good  16-inch  beech  and 
maple wood.
I  ALSO  WANT  TO  SELL  Lime, 
Imported  and  Domestic  Cements,  Fire 
Brick,  Sewer  Pipe,  Drain  Tile,  Hay, 
Grain,  Feed, Oil  Meal, Clover  and  Tim­
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b ra n c h  o f f ic e :  R n i l d e r s ’  Exchange. 

Correspondence Solicited.

A  GREAT  MINING  “ BOOM.” 
Many years have passed since the fam­
ous Sierra Nevada “boom” occurred, but 
so impressive  were its results,that proba­
bly some  thousands of  persons  still  re­
tain  a  lively if  not a  pleasant  recollec­
tion of the  event.  Things had  been  too 
quiet  on the  Comstock  Lode  for the  in­
terests of the handful  of men who really 
ruled and  ran  the  San  Francisco  Stock 
Market.  The public,  whose  speculative 
eagernesss  alone  makes  a  market, had 
for some  time  been  shy  of  investment. 
The plain  truth was that  they had  been 
plundered  so  frequently  and  so  merci­
lessly  that not ;only  were  their pockets 
empty,  but  their  faith  was  staggered. 
There is  no limit to  public  credulity  in 
such matters,  but  to keep  this  foible  at 
I the working stage,  it is necessary to hold 
out at least an  occasional show  of possi­
ble gains,  and it is generally held best to 
let a few  outsiders make a  little  money 
now and  then,  so  as  to  preserve  some­
thing like a tradition of fair play.  As  a 
matter  of  fact, no  game  of  “three-card 
monte” or  “chuck-aluck” could be  more 
essentially and systematically fraudulent 
than the manipulations which controlled 
the  market;  and  the  evidences  of  this 
were  so  abundant  and  recent, that  the 
wayfaring  man,  though  a  fool,  might 
have  realized  the  truth.  But  there  is 
nothing  so  blinding  as  greed,  and  the 
average  stock-gambler  always  thought 
that, no  matter how  many  of his  neigh­
bors  had  been  taken  in,  his  sagacity 
would enable  him to come  out a winner.
Rapacity and  self-conceit together  rein­
forced  the stock  manipulators  at  every 
turn,  and enabled them to  do very much 
as they pleased.  A  time  had'eome  now 
when  in  their  judgment  a  new “deal” 
was in  order,  and,  curiously  enough,  it 
was just  the moment when rumor  about 
the  Sierra  Nevada  mines  began  to  get 
abroad.

The  stock of  that  mine  was down  to 
five dollars a  share,  and  it  was  known 
that  the  working  prospect  was not  en­
couraging.  But it  was  now  whispered 
that the  superintendent had  been  sink­
ing  an  experimental  shaft; that  he  had 
struck a  great  body  of ore; that the  as­
says  were  enormously  rich,  and  that 
Sierra Nevada was the best “buy”  in the 
market.  So far  all was  rumor and  con­
jecture.  No report  was  published.  No 
official information  was  vouchsafed. 
It 
was at this  decidedly hazy juncture  that 
a young broker of Virginia City, Nevada, 
named  Joe  McGirk, learned  for  a  posi­
tive fact that the  report was substantial­
ly true, and, though shrewd  and  skepti­
cal by  nature  and  through  much  busi­
ness  experience,  began  to feel  the  first 
exciting influence of the coming “boom.” 
Sierra  Nevada  began  to  rise. 
In  one 
day’s  Board  it went  up  to  twenty-five. 
Then it  was  whispered  that  the  stock­
holders and managers  were trying to get 
hold  of  all  the  stock  before  the  truth 
was  known  generally;  and  upon  the 
strength  of  that  suggestion,  the  stock 
bounded  up  to  fifty.  By  this time  the 
“boom” was  fully under way,  and  when 
an  official  report  from  the  superinten-

dent was  published,  confirming the most 
exciting rumors,  the public threw  them­
selves  upon  the  mine  like 
famished 
wolves.  At the end of a  week the stock 
stock  stood  at  two  hundred,  and  the 
movement was still upward, while every­
body had gone  stock-mad on the  subject 
of Sierra  Nevada.

It is indeed  the  chief characteristic  of 
all “booms” that  they bereave people  of 
their  senses,  and  that  they  level  all 
distinctions of  intelligence.  The sharp­
est and most  experienced broker or busi­
ness  man,  banker  or  capitalist,  profes­
sional  speculator, nay,  even the  makers 
of booms themselves,fall under the spell, 
yield to the  contagion precisely as in  an 
epidemic,  and  throw  experience,  judg­
ment and  reflection  to  the  winds.  Joe 
McGirk was a smart young man,  and un- 
I der every-day conditions  could take care 
of  himself  very  well.  But  here  was  a 
cyclone of excitement,  a tornado of gold- 
hunger,  sweeping  everything  before  it, 
and it took  him off  his  feet.  A  broker 
in a mining “boom” is specially exposed, 
indeed.  His office is beset by customers, 
old and new,  who  clamor for stock, who 
want it on a margin,  who  mortgage their 
homes rather than  not buy,  who become 
crazier every  hour as  the bulletins show 
that  the pet  stock  is still rising  on  the 
exchange.  And  it  must  be  said,  sadly 
onough, that  at  such  times the  women 
seem even greedier than the men.  They 
are certainly more reckless and more  ex­
cited. 
Joe McGirk was besieged by fair 
customers who  wanted him to  put  their 
diamonds, their wardrobes,  their houses, 
their  horses  and  carriages,  everything 
they  possessed,  up  on  a  margin.  The 
whole population of Virginia City was in 
the same frenzied  condition.  Every ser­
vant-girl, every porter,  every boot-black 
in  the  town  had  something  at  stake. 
When  Sierra Nevada  stood at  two  hun­
dred,  all  manner of  strange stories were 
going the rounds.  This man’s cook  had 
made a  hundred  thousand  dollars;  that 
man’s table-girl was richer than her mis­
tress.  His  honor,  the mayor,  estimated 
that the  three  servants  who  waited  on 
him  represented  half  a  million  dollars 
more than he himself could sign a  check 
for. 
It was a  revolution.  The bonds of 
society were  loosed.  Every  imaginable 
combination was tried.  No one believed 
any freak of fortune  to be impossible  or 
improbable.  As for  Joe McGirk, he was 
engaged to  a very  nice  girl who  taught 
in  the  public  schools,  and, when  Sierra 
rose to  twenty-five,  had  advised  her  to 
invest five thousand  dollars—all her  lit­
tle fortune—in  the stock,  and then hold 
on to it “like grim death.”

Naturally, she took his advice—not be­
ing as yet married  to him—and sat down 
to wait till Fortune came along and filled 
her  lap.  Then  the  stock  rose  to  two 
hundred,  she  would  have  been  willing 
to sell,  but  her  lover  would not  hear of 
it.  for  by  this  time  he  had  become  as 
crazy as his  enstomers,  and he had  com­
mitted the fatal  error—for  a  broker—of 
specnlating on  his  own  account.  This 
was common  enough  on  the  Comstock, 
but the  men who  followed  the  practice

The  season  commences  September  1. 
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prices,  which  will  be quoted  here  next 
week.  Our Solid  brand  takes the  lead.
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EDWIN  FALLAS  &  SON,

Manufacturers of mince meat, sauerkraut 
and  pickles.  Dealers  in  butter,  eggs, 
cheese, oranges, lemons and  sweet cider.

GRAND RAPIDS, MIOH.

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Pitch,  Coal  Tar,  Asphaltum,  Rosin,  Mineral 
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Corner I,ouls*and Campau Sts., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Drugstore for Sale at a Barpi

On  long  time  If  desired, or will  exchange  for 
part  productive real  estate.  Stock  clean  and 
w ell assorted.  Location the best In the city. 
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Opp. New Post Office. 

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G.  L.  BRUNDAGE,

Muskegon,  Mich.

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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

invariably came to  grief in the long run. 
But it was very hard to resist the tempta­
tion,  and  then,  Joe  had  a  reason  for 
yielding which  might  have  upset  a  far 
more level judgment  than his was at the 
moment.  He had a  millionaire  brother 
in San  Francisco,  who  was  notoriously 
deep in  the councils of the  mine  mana­
gers.  Now to this brother Joe had gone, 
and had asked him for a “pointer.”  The 
answer,  given in a hearty and confidence 
inspiring  tone had  beei:  “Buy  Sierra, 
my boy!  Buy Sierra,  and  don’t  be  in  a 
hurry  to  sell!”  And  Joe  accordingly 
bought  Sierra  with  all  the  money  he 
could  raise.  He  had 
thirty  thousand 
thousand dollars  of his  own.  That  was 
his  business  capital. 
It  all  went  into 
the “boom.”  Meanwhile  the  stock  con­
tinued to rise.  On Monday  it  went  to 
two hundred and  twenty-five;  on  Tues­
day to two  hundred and  fifty;  on  Wed­
nesday to two hundred and sixty-five; on 
Thursday7 to  two hundred  and  seventy- 
five.  All this time the  agitation  in  the 
community  was 
indescribable.  There 
was no place in  which men,  women,  and 
even children, were not discussing Sierra 
Nevada.  At  every  meal,  when  people 
came together; in  the  saloon,  the barber 
shops,  the  theatres,  business  offices,  on 
the streets—everywhere,  and  from early 
morning to  late night,  this one  topic ab­
sorbed  and  obscured all  others.  Every 
vestige of prudence and caution had long 
since  been  cast  away.  The  gambling 
madness had  possession.  The  faces  on 
the street were representative of nothing 
but fierce avarice and  burning  rapacity. 
Virginia City resembled a Pandemonium. 
No  other  business  than  that  of  stock­
gambling was thought  of. 
fhe working 
miners  spent  every  d o lla r   they  could 
raise in Sierra Nevada,  and  hundreds  of 
them sold or mortgaged their little homes 
for  that  purpose.  The  pawn  brokers 
drove a roaring trade during  those days, 
and  no  matter  how  deeply  the  people 
were  involved,  scarcely  one  of  them 
thought of selling.

Yet the fact was that the  “boom’’  had 
culminated. 
It ha<J  from the  beginning 
had no solid  foundation,  and,  in  the ab­
sence of any  further  good  news  of  the 
alleged new  ore-body,  it  was  inevitable 
that that a  reaction  should  come.  But 
after  the  manner  of  all  “booms”  the 
gamblers  continued  to  hold  on  and  to 
hope.  Men  who  thought  themselves 
coldly  prudent,  and  who  had  actually- 
sold  out  when  the  stock  reached  two 
hundred, could not resist  the temptation 
of the further rise,  and plunged in again, 
buying more  frantically  than ever.  The 
millionaire  brother  of  Joe McGirk  had 
promised to let  the  latter  know when it 
was  time  for  him  to “ unload,”  but  no 
warning reached the young  broker,  and, 
if it had,  it is very doubtful  whether  he 
would have paid any attention to it.  So, 
two weeks passed,  and  the  second Satur­
day closed  with Sierra Nevada apparent­
ly  firm at  two  hundred and  eighty-five. 
The following Sunday proved an anxious 
day.  Somehow a great many people had 
made up their minds  to sell on the  com­
ing  Monday,  and,  as  if  to  confirm  this 
resolve,  ugly  rumors  crept  about—com­
ing  none  knew  whence—and  causing 
cold chills to run down the backs of spec­
ulators.  McGirk  at  last  realized  that 
the end of  the “boom” was at hand,  and 
he telegraphed to  San  Francisco  to  sell 
his stock as soon as the board opened.

It  was too  late.  He  could  have  sold 
out on  Saturday and  withdrawn  with  a

The  market  was 

fortune.  On Monday  the bottom dropped 
out of  Sierra  Nevada.  No  sooner  was 
the Board  open  than  the  truth  became 
apparent.  Every one  was trying  to  un­
load,  and  there  were  no  offers  for  the 
doomed stock.  Panic quickly succeeded. 
The  quotations  sank  with  appalling 
rapidity.  Nobody  was  holding  up  the 
stock. 
literally 
swamped  with  it.  Fortunes  that  had 
grown like  Jonah’s gourd  shrivled in an 
hour.  Margins  were  nowhere.  Ruin 
stared the boldest in  the  face. 
Joe Mc­
Girk quickly realized  the  extent and im­
plications of  the  collapse,  and  he  was 
crushed by the disaster.  For  it was not 
alone  his  own  capital  that  was  swept 
away.  He could have  endured  that,  be­
ing used to ups and downs.  But his ad­
vice  had  ruined  his  sweetheart,  poor 
Grace  Eusor,  and it  had put  their  mar­
riage  indefinitely  out  of  the  question. 
Joe felt that he could not  face  Grace  as 
yet, and  since nothing  could be done  to 
help her  he resolved to go  to  San  Fran­
cisco and “have it out”  with his brother, 
who had failed to warn  him in time.

The interview did  him  no  good.  His 
brother took his reproaches  very  coolly, 
and  when  he had  freed his miud  with  a 
good deal of energy, merely  said:

That was the end of it. 

“Joe, that’s all nonsense.  There is no 
friendship in  business,  and  if  you  don’t 
know it  you’re not fit to be  in  business. 
1 was not going  to sacrifice my  interests 
and those of my  associates to save you  a 
few thousands,  and,  besides, 1 knew that 
if 1 gave  you a tip, you’d  be sure  to tell 
thing 
somebody  else,  and  the  whole 
would  have  been  blown. 
If  you  had 
shown any common sense in the matter I 
might have helped  you out,  but  the tour 
you’ve  taken  lets  me  out,  and  so  you 
needu’t expect anything from  me.  And 
now 1 am busy,  and  you had  better  go.”
Joe knew his 
brother well  enough  to  be  certain  that 
after such  a declaration  nothing  was  to 
be hoped for  from  him,  and  he  turned 
away  with  despair  in  his  heart.  His 
case,  however,  was but one of thousands, 
and  that  fact  made  the  situation  the 
more hopeless.  When a whole  commu­
nity is  struggling  in  the  grip  of  bank­
ruptcy  the  individual  has  no  chance. 
Every  ordinary  avenue  is  closed.  The 
best collatterals  prove worthless at  such 
a  crisis. 
Character,  ability,  energy 
count  for  nothing.  The  banks cease to 
be resources  and become  aggravators  of 
of the panic.  At the  moment  when  ev­
erybody is crying  out  for  extra  accom 
modations,  it is  impossible to obtain  the 
most usual  help.  Loans  are  called  in, 
demands are  made  for the settlement  of 
overdrawn accounts.  Margins are wiped 
out.  Securities  are  scaled  down  and 
fresh  collaterals  required  on  old  ad­
vances.  Everywhere  the  screw  is  put 
on,  and  all but the  few  strong  capital­
ists are ground into powder.

Joe McGirk knew  perfectly  well  that 
his  own  case  was  hopeless.  His  little 
fortune was swept away in the torrent of 
the panic.  Nor  was  there  any prospect 
of a future opportunity for recovery.  In 
twenty-four  hours  Sierra  Nevada  went 
down to two  and a  half dollars  a  share*. 
It was now  known that  the report about 
the new  ore-body  had  been,  to  say  the 
least,  prematusp  and  exaggerated.  Of 
course,  there  were curses loud  and deep 
for the manipulators; but when men  feel 
that, after all,  their own  insensate  folly 
has been the most efficient agent in their 
11 ruin,  they cannot take much satisfaction

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By  this time  he had  partly  recovered 
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in fault-finding.  The  press, as in  duty 
bound,  denounced  the  “boom”  roundly 
and said bitter  things  about  those  who 
were supposed to have engineered it; but 
that altered nothing.  Everybody had lost 
his money; many  were  permanently  im­
poverished; and  there was no way of  re­
covering a dollar.  Joe  McGirk returned 
to  Virginia City  gloomy  and  depressed. 
He knew  he could  no  longer  delay  the 
inevitable  explanation with  Grace,  and 
the more  he thought  of  it  the  more  he 
dreaded  it.  Not that  he  was  afraid  of 
what Grace might say.  He knew before­
hand  that she, dear  girl,  would take her 
misfortune  sweetly  and  would  do  her 
best to console him. 
It  was not  her  re­
proaches,  but  his  own,  that  unmanned 
him; for now that the glamour had passed 
away he  saw his  own  rashness only  too 
clearly,  and  he  could find  no excuse  for 
himself.  Still,  the  situation  had  to  be 
faced,  and  the  sooner  the  better.  Be­
fore  he  went  to  Grace,  however,  he 
thought  he would  take a spin out to  the 
reservoir—where  in flush  times,  it  was 
the custom to have  gay  picnic  and  fish­
ing  parties.  The  trotters  in  which  he 
took such  pride would have to be sold, of 
course,  but he might as  well ride behind 
them once more.  So he ordered his bug­
gy to be bought around, and drove out.

It  was  a  dull  afternoon,  and  Mount 
Davidson  and all the  surrounding  coun­
try looked  particularly  bleak  and  deso­
late.  Arrived  at  the  reservoir, he  put 
up his  horse  and strolled by  the  water. 
As he  halted  presently  and  looked  out 
over the  gray expanse  a deadly  thought 
came into his mind.  Why—thus it shaped 
itself—should he  go on any  longer with 
a life which had ceased  to be  worth liv­
ing?  What  was left  to him  to  hope  or 
work for?  He  must give up  Grace,  for 
he could not  ask her to bind herself to  a 
pauper; and  though after  years  of  hard 
work he  might scrape  together  another 
competence,  he must not  ask her to wait 
upon  an  uncertainty.  At his  feet lay  a 
sure  and speedy  cure  for all  the ills  of 
life.  Why not take it?  So he mused,his 
mood  becoming darker  and the  tempta­
tion stronger.  There  seemed  to  be  no 
way out but this, he said to himself.  He 
was  too  tired  and  heartsick  to  begin 
everything again  from the  bottom.  Au­
tomatically)  he  took  off  his  hat  and 
dropped it on the  bank beside  him.  He 
began in  the  same absorbed  way  to  un­
button the  light  overcoat  he  was wear­
ing.  Then he slipped it from his  shoul­
ders and  threw  it  on  the  ground.  He 
was out of sight  of  the  house.  Silence 
brooded over the scene.  Overhead a dull 
gray sky;  below,  the^ dull  gray  water; 
within  his  soul, darkness;  at  his  feet, 
oblivion,  r. So he  stood,  bareheaded,  his 
hands clasped  in front of  him,  his  gaze 
turned  inward,  seeing,  hearing  nothing, 
almost  ready  for  the [final  act  of  the 
tragedy.

A  voice  and  a  light  touch  upon  his 
shoulder  recalled  him  suddenly to  him­
self.

“Joe,” said  the  voice,  gently,  “what 

are you doing  here?”

He turned,  trembling,  shivering under 
the soft  weight of the  girl’s little  hand.
“Grace!” he  stammered,  answering,  in 
his confusion,  her question with another. 
“What brought you out here?”

She looked at him tenderly and slipped 

her hand under his arm.

“Put  on  your  hat  and  coat, Joe,  and 
come away.  You will  catch cold  stand­
ing so long by  the water.”

“Oh,  Grace!”  he  cried.  “My  darling 
girl!  How  could  I  face  you  after  the 
ruin I have plunged you into?”

Upon this apostrophe Grace opened her 
lovely eyes wide with the most  innocent 
air of perplexity, and cried:

“Joe,  what in the world do you  mean? 
Have I  complained of  anything?  Did  1 
tell  you I had  lost  anything?  Did  you 
not  invest  my  money in  that  beautiful 
mine,  and  has  not  the  delightful  stock 
been  going up  and  up  like  a  soaring 
baloon ever since?”

Joe  groaned.  He  could  not  help  it. 
This was really worse  than the worst  he 
had anticipated.  The  poor  girl did  not 
even  know  the  calamity  that  he  had 
thrust upon  her.  Here she  was,  repos­
ing absolute  confidence  in  the  security 
of the investment  he had  made  for  her, 
and  the 
investment—  Truly,  words 
could  not  do  justice  to  the  appalling 
irony  of  the  situation.  He  was,  in  a 
measure,  prepared for tears  and  lamen­
tations,  but this  total  misapprehension, 
this dreadful ignorance of what had hap­
pened,  almost stunned him.  And yet,  it 
suddenly  occurred  to  him,  how  was  it 
possible that Grace  should really  be  ig­
norant of  that  which  was  being  talked 
about from  one end  of  Virginia  City  to 
the other?  The  assumption  was too  in­
credible.  Nevertheless—and  he  looked 
at her  again  to  make sure—it  was  evi­
dent that  she was  untroubled; and  even 
if she  knew  the  worst  it  had  not  dis­
turbed  her  serenity. 
But  how  could 
that be?

While  these  thoughts  were  passing 
through his  mind,  Grace  was  watching 
his face,  and it occurred  to him,  at  last, 
that  a  certain  air  of  subdued  mischief 
was lurking in her  eyes.  He  caught  at 
the suspicion  eagerly.

“Grace,” he said,  “you are making fun 
of me.  You know all that has happeued. 
It is impossible that you should not have 
learned  it; and  yet  you  are  free  from 
care.  Tell me,  dearest;  what  does  this 
mean?”

Then Grace threw back  her  head  and 
laughed;  and though  Joe had not the  re­
motest idea of what caused this laughter, 
somehow it had the  effect  upon  him  of 
sunshine; and  without  argument  in evi­
dence,  life  really  seemed  worth  living 
once more.

“The fact is,  Joe,” she said,  when  her 
laugh was  ended—and she came close  to 
him,  and stood in front of him,  and  took 
bold of  the top  button  of  his  cutaway 
coat,  as  she  spoke—“the  fact  is, Joe, 
it is you who have things to learn,  not I. 
Why I  am not  troubled  dear,  and  why 
you must  be no  longer  troubled  is,  that 
I sold out  all my  Sierra  Nevada at  two 
hundred  and  fifty,  and  that  I  have  the 
money  in  the  bank,  and  very  much  at 
your service,  my dear.”

What Joe said to this it is not necessa­
ry to add; only  it may be  added  that  he 
did not  drown himself in  the  reservoir, 
and  that  two  weeks  thereafter  a  quiet 
but  merry  wedding  was  celebrated  at 
Virginia  City,  the  name  of  the  bride 
being  Grace Eusor. 

G.  F.  P a r s o n s .

For the finest coffees in the world, high 
grade  teas,  spices,  etc.,  see J.  P.  Visner, 
304  North  Ionia  street,  Grand  Bapids, 
Mich.,  general  representative  for  E.  J. 
Gillies & Co., New York City.

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. 

See Quotations in Another Column.

CONSIGNMENTS  OF  ALL  KINDS  OF  WILD  GAME  SOLICITED.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

St.  Louis—C.  A. Smith,  of  the  firm  of 
Smith,  Claggett  &  Co.,  stave  manufac­
turers, is dead.

Detroit—F.  L.  Kidder  &  Co. succeed 
Kidder  &  Piper  in  the  flour  mill  busi­
ness.

Kalamazoo — The  Featherbone  Corset 
Co. has filed articles of association.  The 
capital stock is $75,000, one-half  paid in.
Saginaw—H.  W.  Sibley has  purchased 
the mill  property  site, booms and  docks 
of  the  East  Tawas  Lumber  Co., at  that 
place,  the consideration being  $13,650.

T U-TT.  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
A Morocco  Finisher’s Anecdote.
From  th e New York Evening Sun.
“I’m a morocco finisher by trade,” said 
the man with the yellow  beard, as he or­
dered  some  more  huckleberry  pudding 
with  both  kinds  of  sauce,  “and  when 1 
worked in Red Bud  a  ir an came into the 
shop one  day and wanted to borrow fifty 
cents. 
‘Well,’  says  I,  ‘I  never  saw you 
before,  who are you?’ 
‘That’s all right,’ 
says he,  ‘there’s  a  man  down to the bar, 
down  on  the  corner  says  that  you are a 
mug-eyed Turk,  and  if  he  says  it  again 
there’s going to be a bother.’
“So I lent him fifty cents and he walked 
down  to  the  barroom and walks into the 
room and calls out: 
‘Any man that calls 
Gus Coon’s  a  mug-eyed Turk has got to 
fight me.’
“Well,  Bill  Halkins  was  sitting  over 
in the corner and this feller looked pretty 
ornary  and  drunk  and  feeble, and  Bill 
gets  up  and  walks  forward  and  says: 
‘Coons is a Turk,’  and  then  they formed 
a  ring  right  there, and  the bum  broke 
two  of  Bill  Halkins’  teeth  and cut  his 
eye horrid, and  then he butted him  over 
the heart and  threw him a back heel and 
bit  him in  the  ear.  And  then  he got a 
half  Nelson  on  him  and  had  his  neck 
broke only they pulled  him off,  and then 
be came back to the shop.

West Branch—The shingle  mill of  the 
French Lumber Co.  has been idle several 
weeks,  but  it  is  expected  it  will  be 
stocked and  run during  the fall months.
Alpena—The  Minor  Lumber  Co.  had 
1,000,000 of timber in  Presque Isle coun­
ty damaged by  fire last  week,-and it will 
be cut as soon as possible.

Sell  Good  Goods.

From  the Dry Goods Chronicle.
“We  never  talk  price,  but  always 
quality,”  said a leading  retail  merchant 
in a great  city,  and who  sells goods only 
for  cash  on  delivery.  This  man is get­
ting  rich  fast,  his  trade  is  steadily  in­
creasing,  and  these  facts  add to the sig­
nificance  of  his  remark.  “Quality,” he 
says,  “is  what  after  all  makes  or  loses 
a  customer.  Price  has  nothing  to  do 
with  a  customer’s  palate.  We  are  all, 
more  or  less, slaves  to  appetite,  and 
know no other law than self gratification. 
The  pleased  palate  is  wedded  to  the 
sources of  its gratification,  and  does not 
stop to  compare prices. 
If  an  article is 
offered  cheaper  by some  competitor, the 
pleased customer  says  it is  because  the 
service  is  inefficient, or  that a low price 
on  one  article is only  an  excuse  for an 
extravagant price on  another, and, there­
fore,  he  becomes  the  steady  patron  of 
the  store  where  quality is the  first  con­
sideration,  and  where a fair  price is the 
rule.”

FOR SALE.  WANTED,  ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted  under  this  head for 
two  cents  a   word  the  first  insertion  and  one cent a 
word  for  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m ent taken for less th an  95 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

SOI

ESkhAhLi  OPENING  FOR  DRY  GOODS,  BOOTS 
and  shoes  and  furnishing  goods  business.  Ad­

dress 298, care M ichigan Tradesman.___________298

I ¡'OR  SALE—$6,GOO  stock  clothing,  dry  goods,  hats, 

caps, boots,  shoes  and  groceries in live growing 
town  located  in  excellent  farm ing  section  m ost  of 
stock  bought  w ithin  last  12  months.  Also two good 
store building’s.  Bell  all  cheap and take in p a rt  pay­
m ent good farm  property.  Best of reasons for selling. 
J. A. L., care Tradesman. 

Fo r   s a l e —d r u g   s t o c k   in   t h r iv in g   su m m e r
resort  town.  W ill inventory about  $1,200.  Rare 
opportunity.  Address Lock Box 87, Crystal, Mich. 299
F OR SALE—a COMPLETE  DRUG STOCK  AND Fix­
tures;  stock well  assorted  can  be  bought  a t  a 
bargain.  Address for  particulars  S. P. Hicks,  Lowell, 
124
Mich. 
I ¡'OR  SALE—A COMPLETE  LOGGING  OUTFIT  AT A 

;  bargain.  W ill  sell  all or p art,  as  desired.  Also 
one  standard  guage  Shay  locom otive  in  first-class 
iw orking condition.  Apply  to  W. A. D. Rose, Big Rap- 
ds, Mich. 

WANTED—I HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 

general  o r  grocery stock;  m ust be cheap.  Ad­
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 
TYTANTED—PARTNER  TO  TAKE  HALF  INTEREST 
V? 
in full roller m ill;  m ust  be practical  m iller.  J. 
E. Richmond, Jackson, Mich._________________ 802

282

26

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

MISCELLANEOUS.

IX>R  SALE—CHEAP  ENOUGH  FOR  AN  INVE8T- 

1  ment.  Corner  lot  and 5-room  house  on  North 
Lafayette  St.,  cellar,  brick  foundation,  soft  w ater 
in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to  suit.  Address No.  187, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
TT'OR  SALE  OR  RENT—CORNER  LOT  AND  5-ROOM 
r   house on North  L afayette st., cellar, brick found­
ation  and  soft  w ater  in  kitchen.  $1.200.  Terms  to 
suit.  Cheap enough  for  an  investm ent.  Address  No 
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 
rp H R   MORTGAGE  ON  BLANCHARD  A  PRINGLE’S 
X   stock, a t Sand Lake, has been paid and discharged, 
leaving th eir stock of  about $3,500 free and  clear, ana 
th e firm is now in good circumstances. 

187.

297

187

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AMONG THE TRADE.
ABOUND THE STATE.

Detroit—James  W.  BLine  has  sold  his 

drug stock to John Moore.

Coleman—D.  McIntyre  has  sold  his 

grocery stock to Henry Boyce.

Batavia—J.  L. Purdy has sold his gen­

eral stock to G. W. Morehouse.

Allegan—C.  D.  Ritchie has engaged  in 

the merchant  tailoring business.

Mecosta—Smith & Thomas  succeed  M. 

Hagenbaugh in the  meat business.

Kalamazoo—W.  L.  Brownell  has  sold 

his grocery stock to Allen & Soles.

Belleville—Geo.  E.  Blodgett  has  pur­

chased the drug  stock of V.  G. Woods.

Dundee—Cochrane & Rankin have sold 
their elevator and coal  business to J.  D. 
Smith.

Ovid—W.  H.  Hart has bought the bak­
ery and  confectionery business  of  J.  A. 
Travis.

Hillsdale—Lipps  &  Stone,  cigar  and 
tobacco dealers,  have  dissolved, the  for­
mer continuing.

Caledonia—W.  T.  Hardy has  removed 
his boot and shoe stock to  Sparta, where 
he has re-engaged in business.

Empire—John  and  George  Esch,  of 
Platte,  have  purchased  a  site,  and  are 
soon to open a meat market in Empire.

Lake City—Van L Witt has  purchased 
the drug and  book stock of  H.  A. Fisher 
—not Sands & Witt, as previously stated.
Big Rapids—The  cigar  firm of  Gile  & 
Blanchard  is  now Gile  &  Dowell, Jessie 
Dowell having purchased Mr. Blanchard’s 
interest.

Sparta—M.  Lightstone  has  concluded 
not to  remove to  Carson  City,  but  will 
remain in Sparta and add a  line  of  gro­
ceries to his general stock.

Big Rapids—S.  S. Wilcox,  who was en­
gaged in the hardware business here  for 
many years,  has  arranged  to  remove  to 
West Superior in the near future.

Bay City—The dry  goods  store  of  the 
Bancroft-Thompson Company was closed 
last Wednesday  by  the  mortgagees,  the 
H. B. Claflin Company, of New York.

Eaton  Rapids — R.  H.  Reynolds  has 
sold his boot and shoe stock  to  Mr.  Bur- 
hans,  of  Owosso,  and  the  same  was 
packed and shipped  there last  Saturday.
Detroit—Mcdonald,  Rich  &  Co.  have
filed articles of association.  The capital 
stock is $40,000, held by Frank M. Thomp­
son,  A. W.  Wright, Charles F.  Rich  and 
George S. Mcdonald.

Gaston—H.  M.  Patrick,  who  has  been 
in the general merchandise business ever 
since the town started, has closed out his 
stock of dry goods,  boots and shoes,  and 
will stock up with groceries.

Hart—Sanford & Henwood have closed 
out the  remainder of  their grocery stock 
to C.  Slaght  and  E.  S.  Houghtaling,  and 
the fixtures to Dr. H.  B. Hatch.  The lat­
ter and  B. S. Reed are  getting the  room 
ready for their  stock of  drugs.  S. & H. 
have not decided as to future action.

Mantón — H.  C.  McFarlan 

recently 
uttered five chattel mortgages on his gen­
eral  stock—one  for  $1,200  to  Lucy  A. 
Brown, of  Belding;  one for $300 to Chas. 
Noble;  one for  $900  to  M. F.  White,  the
local banker;  one to Eliza Snell for $106, 
and a fifth  to  R   P.  Baldwin  2d,  &  Co., 
of Detroit.  Mr.  White has foreclosed on | 
his mortgage  and the  stock is advertised 
to  be  sold  on  the  28th.  Mr. McFarlan 
has  been in business  here for  seventeen 
years  and  his failure is a matter of  gen­
eral regret.

“ ‘Well?’  I says when he walked in.
“ ‘Well,’ he  says;  ‘a  man  called  you a 
mug-eyed Turk.  You ought to see him,” 
and he took off  his coat and  set down on 
a bench;  and I gave  him a knife  and he 
went to work,  and I walked  down to the 
bar.  There  was  Halkins  on  the  floor; 
they was  sponging  his  head with  vine­
gar.
“ ‘Well,’ I says,  ‘Bill, couldn’t  you do 
that bum?’
“ ‘No,’ says Bill,  ‘and he looked kinder 
sickly,  too.’
“ ‘Well, I says,  ‘you’re  the  sickly one 
now,  don’t be calling  me  names.’  And 
then everyone  laughed  and I  went  back 
to the shop.”

Country Callers.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  T h e 
T radesm an office during  the  past  week 
from  the  following  gentleman  in  trade:

August Swanson,  Hobart.
Geo.  Lane, Cooopersville.
W. T.  Hardy, Sparta.
J. Cohen, White  Cloud.
Hamilton & Milliken, Traverse City.
N.  B.  Blain, Lowell.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar  is  without  particular  change. 
The  Buscuit  Co.  has  advanced  some 
grades  of  crackers }4c,  probable  due  to 
the advance in flour.  Jobbers  who have 
old pickles are closing them out very low, 
to make room for new stock.

Cheboygan—The  Cheboygan  Lumber 
Co.  will  begin  running  its  mill  nights 
the  first of  nest  month.  The  mills  of 
Cheboygan have  been  lucky  this season 
in having all the stock  they can  handle.
Flint—W.  A.  Patterson,  whose  car­
riage and road cart factory was burned  a 
short  time ago,  has  refused  the  council 
offer  of ten  years’  freedom  from  taxa­
tion,  and will  probably  remove  to  Sagi­
naw.

Saginaw—S. G.  M.  Gates, of  this  city, 
has purchased  a  lot  of  stump  lands  in 
Iosco  county  of  R.  A.  Alger  and M.  S. 
Smith, of  Detroit,  the  consideration  be­
ing $4,500. 
It is said  there  is considera­
ble scattering timber on the lands.

Detroit—The United States Frumentum 
Co., formed for the preparation of cereals 
under a  patent, has  filed  articles of  in­
corporation.  The capital stock is$14,000 
and the  stockholders are  John P.  Fleltz, 
Florence  D.  Eatherly,  Frank  Lauhoff, 
William  Lauhoff  and  Henry A.  Lauhoff.
Bay City—W.  T.  Jones  has  started  a 
camp  in Presque  Isle  county,  where  he 
will put in a large quantity of  long  logs 
for Alger, Smith &  Co., of Detroit.  The 
logs will be put into  Little  Huron  lake, 
where they will remain  until  the  north­
ern extension  of the  Alger road  reaches 
the lake.

Bay City—Kanouse & Norrington, who 
have  been  interested  in  lumbering,  are
winding up their business.  Mr. Kanouse 
operated the mill  of the Mackinac  Lum­
ber  Co., at  St. lgnace,  last  season, and 
had leased it for five years, but there was 
some disagreement this season regarding 
the  conditions of the  lease,  and the  mill 
has been idle.

Muskegon—W.  S.  Horn  has  been  ap­
pointed by Judge  Dickerman receiver  of 
the  Muskegon  Iron  Works  Co.  This 
company  was  operated  by  a  copartner­
ship  composed  of  Daniel  Kerr,  Joseph 
Latsch,  C.  B.  Kerr  and  Wm. Schergen, 
the shop being at the intersection of Pine 
and  Israella  streets.  The  works  were 
said to be  doing  a  good  business  until 
the partners disagreed  and went to  law. 
Mr.  Horn  will file his  bond  immediately 
and at once begin the work of turning the 
property into cash.

To  the  Trade:
The  opening of  the regular season is fast  approaching, and 
to all who  deal in Oysters we wish  to  state that we would be 
pleased to have  you  start in by favoring us with an order  for 
our  tf l 1.  H .”  B rand.  That  it  has  merit  has been 
proved by its  popularity, that it will  be  kept up to standard, 
we pledge our  reputation.  All of  our local  jobbers  will  be 
pleased to fill your  orders, and we ask  that you  specify when 
ordering, the P. B.  brand,  always fresh, clean and uniform.

THE  PUTNAM CANDY  CO.

He  Knew the  Women.

Proprietor  of  a  dry goods  store—If  a 
lady,  after  examining  a  piece  of  dress 
goods,  had  expressed  her  satisfaction 
with  it,  would  you  ask  her  how  many 
yards she desired?
I should  ask 
her  where  she  would  have  the  sample 
sent.
I  see 
you’ve had experience.

Proprietor—I  guess  you’ll  do. 

Applicant—No,  indeed. 

P E R K I N S   <&  H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool A Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  1M   and  184  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WE CASRT A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

M O R S E ’S

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Ladies’,  Misses  aid  C ifa ’s  Cleats.

Siegel’s  Cloak  Department.

M anufacturers and  Im porters of

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Morse’s  Department  Store, Corner  Spring and Monroe Sts.

rPTTTn  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
Substitution in the Yeast Business. 
Gra nd  Ra pid s,  Aug.  24. — As  your 
journal  is  devoted  to  the  discussion of 
trade subjects, I wish to lay a matter be­
fore  your  readers,  with a view to future 
consideration.
I  usually do my trading a t------ ’s gro­
cery  store, on Canal  street.  Noting in a 
local organ of  trade unionism that a cer­
tain brand of  compressed  yeast was boy­
cotted, I resolved to use that make in my 
family  hereafter,  as  I  consider  it  the 
duty of  every  honest  man and  patriotic 
American to oppose the  boycott with  all 
the  power at his command, for  the reign 
of  the  boycott  would  see free  America 
without  freedom and  plunge  the Ameri­
can citizen into slavery more odious than 
that  from which the  negroes were  liber­
ated  by  the  proclamation  of  Abraham 
Lincoln.
Calling  for the  article  above referred 
to,  I  was  assured it was  kept  in  stock 
and asked the clerk to do  me  up a pack­
age. 
I  noticed  he  was  a long  time  in 
bringing it and  I  further  noted  that the 
label had been nearly all torn off.  Satis­
fied  that  the  clerk was  deceiving  me by 
substitution,  I  again  questioned  him, 
when he again  solemnly assured me that 
the  yeast  was  the  brand  I  called  for. 
Inspection by daylight  disclosed the fact 
that the  remaining  portion of  the  label 
was  a  different  color  than  that  used on 
the yeast I wished to purchase,  the clerk 
having  told two  falsehoods  for the  sake 
of a two-cent sale.
Nathan  Church,  who  edited  the  now 
defunct  Daily  Times  for several  years, 
was  in  the  habit of  remarking that  he 
would not tell a lie  for sixteen and  two- 
thirds  cents, but  that he would  tell  six 
for a dollar.  The grocery clerk goes him 
one  better  by uttering  falsehoods  for  a 
penny apiece.
Of course, I shall  never have  any con­
fidence  in  that  clerk  again  and  shall 
refuse  to  be  waited  on  by  him  when
trading with Mr.  ------ hereafter.  What
I wish to impress  on  M r.------ ’s mind is
this:  Will  not the  clerk  who will  lie to
a customer steal from his employer?

9

Customer.

Possibly  we  can 

X -/R IT E   us for  Samples and  Prices.
save  you 
money.  W e  have  a  good  white  en­
velope (our 154) which we s e ll:

□ 5 0 0
i.ooo
2 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
1 0 ,0 0 0

No  6
Size 3%x6
$ 1 .4 0
2 .2 5
2 .0 0
1 .7 5
1 6 0

No  6^
Size 3 ^ x 6 ^
$ 1 .5 0
2 .4 0
2 .1 0
1 .8 5
1 .7 0

Special  prices  on  larger  quantities. 
This  is  not a cheap  stock,  but  good 
fair envelope.  W e  have  cheaper and 
have  better  grades,  but  can  recom­
mend this one.

THE  TRADESMAN  GOMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
A b o v e   P ric e s  In clu de  P rin tin g !

Umday*! and Saturday's Detroit Evening- News 

for further Particulars.

S l O O   G I V E N   A W A Y

To til« S m oker« of th «

P R IN C E   R U D O L P H   C IG A R S .

Te  the person  guessing  the  nearest  to  the  number of  Imps that trill 
appear in a series of cuts in the  Evening  News,  cuts  not  to  exceed  100. 
1st Cash  Prize. $50:  2d. $25;  3d. 15;  4ili.  $10.  G uess slips to  lie had  with 
every  25c  w orth of  PR IN CE  RU DO LPH  CIGARS.  Sold  Every« here 
late  there  has been published 23cuts, with a total  of 303  Imps

l  i-1< 

MANUraOTUMC«  If

A L .U X .  G O K D O N ,  D e t r o i t ,   M l o t k .
DANIEL  LYNCH,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  Agt.

ORAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

John H. Wierenga has 9old his grocery 

store to Seth  Ellis.

August Swanson,  sawmill  operator  at 
Hobart, has put in a grocery stock.  The 
Olney & Judson Grocer Co.  furnished the 
stock.

The Geo.  W. Woodburn & Co. clothing 
stock has been purchased by J. Levinson, 
of Petoskey,  who  has  removed it to  that 
place.

J.  E.  Hutchinson,  dry  goods  dealer 
at  Fennville,  has  added  a  line of  gro­
ceries.  The  stock was  furnished by the 
Olney & Judson Grocer Co.

The Hazeltine & Perkins  Drug Co.  has 
sold the  Ives & Day drug  stock,  at Beld- 
ing,  to C. W. Ives,  who will continue the 
business at the same location.

H.  H.  Freedman,  cigar  manufacturer 
at  Lansing,  has  opened  a  tobacco  store 
in  connection  with  his  factory.  The 
Ball-Barnliart-Putman  Co.  furnished the 
stock.

The Lustig  failure is  to  be  re-opened 
by  an  attorney  who  claims  to have  un­
earthed a piece of  testimony  which  will 
enable him  to  secure  the  annulment  of 
the mortgages.

Purely  Personal.

J. Cohen, the  White  Cloud  dry  goods 
merchant,  was in town one day last week.
H. D. Shields,  book-keeper for  Brown, 
Hall & Co.,  has  gone  to  Hilliards  for  a 
week’s vacation.

Dan C. Steketee  and  wife  have  taken 
possession  of  their  handsome  residence 
at 300 Fountain street.

Samuel  M.  Lemon  is  confined  to  his 
bed  with an acute attack of inflammation 
of the bowels.  At last  accounts he  was 
slowly improving.

Adolph G.  Krouse has the sympathy of 
the trade in his concern over the danger­
ous illness  of his  son,  a  lad  of 14 years. 
The boy is  suffering  from  a  relapse  of 
the typhoid fever.

Too  Important.

From  the Canadian  Grocer.
A certain  dry  goods  clerk  was  in  the 
habit of saying to  his associates that  the 
concern  would find  it pretty hard  to  get 
along  without  him. 
These  remarks 
came  to the  ears  of  the  senior  partner, 
and he called the  clerk into the inner of­
fice.
“Mr.  Jenkins,”  he  began,  “you  are 
very efficient, and  we  highly  appreciate 
your services,  but  we have heard it  said 
that were you  to die,  the business  could 
not possibly survive  the  loss.  This  has 
worried us  a good deal, for  you,  like all 
the rest of us,  are liable to’ drop off  sud­
denly.
therefore,  for 
our peace of  mind, to  experiment  while 
we are both in good health, and see if the 
concern  can  bear  up  under  your  loss. 
You  will  accordingly  consider  yourself 
dead for one year, and  we will try to get 
on without you for that  length of time.”

“We  have  concluded, 

In Blast Again.

F r u itpo r t,  Aug.  18—The Spring Lake 
Iron Co.’s furnace went into  blast  again 
to-day,  stimulated by the more favorable 
outlook in  the  iron  market.  Extensive 
repairs have been made to the plant dur­
ing the sixty days it has been idle.

Bank Commissioner  Sherwood  has  in­
stituted the Marine City Savings Bank as 
a  State  bank,  with a capital  of  $50,000. 
The  People’s  Bank,  in  the  same  place, 
hrs also been reorganized as a State bank.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Appreciate Your Business.

That  man is a poor  specimen of enter 
prise  who  runs  down  his  own  business 
and wishes  he  had  never  gone  into  it. 
We  heard  a  mechanic  say:  “If  1  had  a 
boy,  he should  never learn my trade;  its 
the poorest way of making a living there 
is, and anything else is better.”
The  chances  are that  he  was  a  poor 
workman  and vented  his  spite  by  curs­
ing  his  employment.  The  day’s  labor 
was  regarded  as  a  task,  and  the  hours 
spent in his  shop as so  many robbers  of 
his liberty.
The  same  is  true  of  a  merchant  who 
despises or professes  to despise his  hon 
orable  calling.  Nothing  in  all  secular 
employment  has  furnished nobler exam 
pies of intellectual  vigor, honorable sue 
cess and useful  life than the  vocation of 
a merchant, and any man should be proud 
to be in it.  No business  has  done  more 
to create the  civilization  of the  age  and 
oil the wheels of the world’s progress.
King  Solomon,  the  wisest  man  of an 
cient  history,  was  a  merchant  on  the 
reciprocity  plan,  with  Hiram,  king  of 
Tyre who thought  he could make a good 
bargain.  He  is  said  to  have  cleared 
about $10,000,000 on a single investment, 
but his family  expenses were  heavy and 
he  needed  large  profits.  He  imported 
timber  from  the  Tyrians;  linen,  yarn 
horses and chariots from Egypt; exported 
wheat, barley,  wine and oil,  and we ven 
ture to say he never spoke ill  of his bus 
iness,  king that he was.
What  class  of  men  have  given  more 
for schools,  colleges,hospitals and gener­
al charities  than the  merchants  of  Eng­
land  and  America?  The  pedigrees  of 
kings do not furnish their equals.  Why 
then,  should  anyone  in  such  good  com 
pany  have  a  contempt  for  it?  What 
would the country do without merchants? 
In fifty years the world would drift back 
into  barbarism.
Brother storekeepers, put a high value 
on your position.  Hold  up its honor,  its 
integrity, 
its  best  business  principles, 
The community in which you live have 
right to expect it  of you,  and  take  pride 
in seeing you meet their expectations.

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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

For  Th e  Ba by 

Get The

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12
brown....... 12
Haymaker blue........ 734
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................1114
Lancaster  ...............1214
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 1314
“  NO.220....13
“  No. 250....1154
“  No. 280.. ..1014

“ 
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Amoskeag...............1214
9 oz...... 1454
brown .13
Andover................. 1114
Beavercreek AA...10 
“ 
BB...  9
“ 
CC__
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  854
“  d a  twist 1014
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 

Amoskeag................ 754
“  Persian dress 854 
Canton ..  854
“ 
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AFC........1214
Arlington staple__654
Arasapha  fancy  ...  454 
Bates Warwick dres 854 
staples.  614
Centennial.............  1054
Criterion................1014
Cumberland  staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   754
Everett classics......854
Exposition............... 754
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven................ 634
Glen wood.................714
Hampton...................614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
indigo blue 914
zephyrs__16
Lancaster,  staple...  634

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GINGHAMS.
“ 
fancies....  7
“  Normandie  8

Lancashire.............   614
Manchester............   534
Monogram................634
Normandie............. 7%
Persian.....................814
Renfrew Dress........754
Rosemont................. 654
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................714
Toil  duNord......... 1014
Wabash.................... 714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   814
Whittenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............8
..............10
Windermeer........... 5
York..........................634

GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag.............. 1654|Valley City..............1514
Stark...................... 20  Georgia...................1514
American...............1654 ¡Pacific....................1434

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End... .45  ¡Barbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ...............88
Holyoke..................22141

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

..33
6  .
8... ....34
10... ...35
12...
...36

White.  Colored.
White.  Colored.
42
38 No.  14... ....37
43
“  16... ....38
39
44
40
*•  18... ....39
“  20... ....40
45
41
CAMBRICS.
W ashington..........3%
Red Cross.  ............ 334
Lockwood...............4
Wood’s..................   4
Brunswick.............  4

Slater........................4
White Star.............  4
Kid Glove...............  4
Newmarket............   4
Edwards...................4

Fireman................. 3214
Creedmore..............2714
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless............... 2714

RED  FLANNEL.
T W ...
...............2214
F T ............. 
3214
J R F , XXX............35
Buckeye.................3214

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Grey SR W.............1714
Red Jc'Blne,  plaid..40
Western W ............. 1814
Union R.................2214
P R  P .............  
1814
Windsor................. 1814
oz Western.......... 21
Flushing XXX........ 2314
Union  B.................2214!Manitoba................ 2314

DOMET  FLANNEL.

“ 

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Slate.
13
15
17
20

Nameless...... 8  © 9141 
......   854@10  I 

...... 9  ©1014
1214
....... 
Black.
Brown.
13
15
17
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
13
914 
15
1014 
17
1114 
1214 
20

Brown.  Black.
Slate.
654
914
1014
1014
1114
1114
1214
1214
Severen, 80Z.......... 914
Mayland, 8 oz......... 1014
Greenwood, 714 oz..  914 
Greenwood, 8 oz — 1114
White, doz..............25  ¡Per bale, 40 doz.... 67.50
Colored, doz...........20 

West  Point, 8 oz — 1054 
“ 
10 oz  ...1214
Raven, lOoz............1314
Stark 
............1314
WADDINGS.

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SILESIAS.

Slater, Iron Cross...  8

“ Red Cross....  9
“ 
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Best..............1014
1254
Best AA 

Pawtucket...............1014
Dundie....................  9
Bedford...................1054
Valley  City.............1014

SEWING  SILK.

Cortlcelli, doz......... 75  [Corticelll  knitting,

..12  “ 8 
..12 J  “  10 

twist, doz.. 3714  per 14 oz  ball........30
50 yd, doz. .3714)
HOOKS AND EVES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..10  ¡No  4 Bl’k & White.. 15 
“  2 
..20
“  3 
..25
No 2—20, M C.........50 
|No 4—15 F  314...........40
•'  3—18, S C ..........45 
|
No  2 White & Bl’k..12  INo  8 White & Bl’k..20 
“  4 
.23
“  6 
..26
No 2........................28 
|No3..  ......................36

COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
..18 I  “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.

FINS.

“ 
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NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James.................1 B0I Steamboat...............   40
Crowely’s............... 1 35 Gold Eyed.................... 1 50
Marshall’s ..............1 00
5—4. ...2 25  6—4. ..3 25|5—4....1  95  6—4. ..2 95 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...3 10|

“ ....2 10 

COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown................... 12
Domestic.............. 1854
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................13
CherTy  Valley....... 15
IX  L.......................13
Alabama.................  6-4
Alamance...............   654
Augusta.................754
Ari sapha................  6
Georgia...................  654
Granite................  554
Haw  River............ 5
Haw ;J....................  5

Nashua..................18
Rising Star 4-ply__17
3-ply.... 17
North Star............. 20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1754 
Powhattan............18

T‘ 

Mount  Pleasant__ 654
Oneida....................5
Pyrm ont................  534
Randelman............6
Riversids................554
Sibley A.................  654
Toledo....................  6

PLAID  OSNABTTBGS.

One Kind of a Typewriter.

“Note that  young  lady,”  remarked  a 
friend, the  other  day.  “She  is  a  type­
writer, but she is not much like the kind 
the newspapers are always telling stories 
about,  though,  like  them, she is pretty— 
as  pretty as a picture,  and as good  as  if 
she  were old  and ugly.  She  is  twenty- 
two,  and  let  me  tell  you  what  she  has 
done.

“Six  years  ago she  was the  most rag­
ged,  friendless,  ignorant  little  orphan 
you  would  care to hear of,  and  she  had 
four  younger  sisters, each  more  raggad 
and friendless and ignorant and orphaned 
than  the  other.  She  went  into a type­
writing  copying  office to learn  the  busi­
ness in return  for services  as  office girl. 
She  was  such a bad  speller  that  every­
body said  she would  never  make a type­
writer.  She set in to learn to spell.  She 
was so shabby that  the head of  the office 
said  he  was  ashamed  to  send  her  on 
errands, but  she  did  her  work  so  well 
that he concluded it would pay  to  spend 
a couple of dollars in fixing her up.

“She made  herself  a skillful operator, 
although to begin  with  she  was  uncom­
monly  clumsy.  The  fact  was  that  she 
had  something  else  on  her  mind  than 
finding  a  husband  to  support her.  She 
was  thinking about  those  four  little sis­
ters.  They  were  living  around  with 
relatives,  most of  whom were  very poor, 
and when  they were not  poor  they were 
exceptionally  cross  and  cruel  to  make 
up.  This little woman,  call  her Anna if 
you like, had an ambition to be a mother 
to those little sisters.

“A mother?  What she is now is mother 

and  father, too!

“ The first  money she  could  scrape to­
gether  from  her  typewriting  she  spent 
learning  stenography. 
She  could  not 
afford all the lessons she needed,  but she 
made it up in hard work by herself.  She 
was  not  gifted  with  the  qualities  for 
making the  best  stenographer—the  best 
ones are born,  not  made—but she did all 
she could,  and  came out  better than  the 
average  that  do  office  work,  and  since 
that she has had comparatively easy sail­
ing.

“People  had  noticed  her;  she  got  a 
good  position;  not  much  money,  as  you 
count  money,  but  enough to start  her in 
executing  a  long-cherished  plan.  She 
got together those four sisters.  She took 
a  little  tenement  house.  She  gathered 
them all in and told  them they must live 
without  furniture  until  they could  buy 
it—not on the  installment  plan. 
In  the 
mean  while  they would all  have  plenty 
of  good  food,  such as they had  not  had 
before,  because  furniture  is  a  luxury, 
but good food is an Investment for work­
ing girls.

“Two of  the girls  were learning type­
writing in the  same  way she  did.  The 
two younger ones were in  school.  They 
camped  along  as  best  they  could  and 
were happy.  That was a year and a half 
ago.  Now  three'of  them  are  earning 
good  pay,  as salaries go—there  is a pre­
judice  in  that  big office  building where 
Anna  is  in  favor of  the  family;  one of 
the younger ones is learning the business 
in the old  way.  Their home is as pretty 
a  little  place in its  modest  way as there 
is in town,  and  their  relatives  are  more 
helpful  and  kind than  ever  before—be­
cause nothing succeeds like success.

“1  call  that  young  woman’s  success 

worth talking about.”

Use Tradesman  or  Superior  Coupons.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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Integrity, colored.

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.Arrow Brand  5>4 
Adriatic.................  7
‘A rgyle...................  654
“  World Wide..  7
“  LL...............   5
Atlanta AA.............6%
Atlantic  A............. 7
Full Yard Wide...... 654
H .............   65£
“ 
Georgia  A..............654
Honest Width.........   6?4
“ 
P ............ .  6
Hartford A ............ 5
D.............   6*
“ 
Indian Head...........  7J4
“  LL................ 5ÎÎ
Amory....................   7
King A  A................654
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King EC.................5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  554
Lawrence  L L ........  554
Blackstone O, 38__5
Madras cheese cloth 634
Black Crow............ 654
Newmarket  G..........6
Black Bock  ...........  7
B .........5*
Boot, AL................  714
N.........654
DD....  514
Capital  A............... 5*4
Cavanat V............5%
X
Chapman cheese cl.  3J£ Noibe R ..................  5
Clifton  C R ............ 554 Our Level  Best........ 614
Comet..................... 7  Oxford  R ................... 614
Dwight Star............734 Pequot......................  734
Clifton CCC...........  614 Solar.......................   614
¡Top of the Heap__714
A B C ......................81.
Geo. Washington
Amazon...................8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg.................7
Gold Medal..............714
Art  Cambric.......... 10
Green  Ticket......... 814
Blackstone A A......8
Great Falls.............   614
Beats All................   414
Hope......................... 714
Boston................... 12
Just  Out........  434@ 5
Cabot...................... 714
King  Phillip.............734
OP......714
C abot,  % — ...............6M
Charter  Oak...........514
Lonsdale Cambric. .1014
Conway W
Lonsdale...........  @ 814
Cleveland.............. 7 "¡Middlesex..........   © 5
Dwight Anchor...... 814 No Name..................   714
shorts.  834 Oak View...............   6
Edwards.................   6  Our Own.................514
Empire...................   7  Pride of the West... 12
Farwell...................  734 Rosalind................. 754
Fruit of the  Loom.  754.1 Sunlight.................   414
Fitehville  .............  7  Utica  Mills............ 814
First Prize..............  654 
“  Nonpareil  ..11
Vinyard..................  814
Fruit of the Loom %. 
Fairmount..............  454 White Horse...........  6
Full Value..............6341 
.  .  814
Cabot...................... 754| Dwight Anchor........9
Farwell...................8 
TremontN........ ....  554 Middlesex No. 1.  . .10
Hamilton N...... ....  654
.11
L......
3... .12
...  8
Middlesex  AT..
7... .18
X ....
...  9
8... .19
No. 25....  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
...  754 Middlesex A A
...  8
2
“ 
...  9
AO
“ 
...  9
“ 
4
“ 
5
...1054
CARPET WARP.
...18

.11
.12
.1354
.1754
.16
.21
colored —  2054 White Star..............1854
“  colored..21
Nameless................20
...........25
...........2714
...........30
...........3214
......   35
Coraline................$9 50|Wonderful............$4 50
Schilling’s ............   9 00| Brighton............... 4 75
Armory.................. 634|Naumkeagsatteen..  754
Androscoggin.........  754¡Rock port...................654
Biddeford...............  6  Conestoga.................654
Brunswick..............614]Walworth................   634
Allen turkey  reds..  534¡Berwick fancies__  14
robes...........514 Clyde Robes.............  5
Eink a purple 614 Charter Oak fancies 414
u ffs...........  6  DelMarine cashm’s.  6
mourn’g  6
pink  checks.  554 
staples........  514 Eddystone fancy...  6
chocolat  6
shirtings...  4541 
American  fancy—   554 
rober__   6
American indigo__  534 
sateens..  6
American shirtings.  454 Hamilton fancy.  ...  6
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple__554
Anchor Shirtings...  434 Manchester fancy..  6 
....  654 
Arnold 
new era.  6
...  6  1 Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Arnold  Merino 
long cloth B. 1014iMerrlm’ckshirtings.  414 
“ 
“  Reppfum .  854
“ 
“  C.  814 
“ 
century cloth 7  Pacific fancy..........6
“ 
robes..............654
“  gold seal......1014 
“  green seal TR1014 Portsmouth robes...  6 
“  yellow  seal.. 1054 Simpson mourning..  6
greys........6
serge.............1114 
“ 
“  Turkey red.. 10141 
solid black. 6
Ballou solid black..  5  Washington indigo.  6
colors.  554 
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange ...  554
Berlin solids...........  514
“  oil blue........ 654
'  “  “  green —   654
“  Foulards ....  554
red 34...........  7
“ 
“  %  .........   954
“ 
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“  4 4.........10
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........  6
“  madders...  6 
“  XX twills..  614 
“ 
solids........554
Amoskeag AC A....13 
Hamilton N............  754  Pemberton AAA_16

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Turkey robes..  714
"  India robes___ 714
“  plain T’ky X 34  814 
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“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red................   6
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 54........ 714
Martha Washington
Turkeyred............ 914
Riverpolnt robes....  5
Windsor fancy..........614
gold  ticket 
indigo  blue..........IO54

Hamilton N ......
Middlesex P T..
A T ..
X A..
X F ..
Peerless, white..
Integrity................. 18541 
Hamilton 

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G G  Cashmere........21
Nameless..............16
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|A C A......................1214
D............   854  York.......................1014
Awning..11  Swift River.............  714
Farmer....................8  Pearl  River..............1254
First  Prize.............1114 Warren......................14
Lenox M ills..........18 
Atlanta,  D..............  634  ¡Stark A 
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Boot........................  654  No  Name................ 714
Clifton, K............... 7>4|Top of Heap.............10
SATINES.
Simpson.................20
.20 1 Imperial................. 1054
.18 Black.......... ....  9© 954
......... ...........1054
.16
I Coechco..................1014
• 1054

COTTON  DRILL.

CORSET  JEANS.

DBESS  GOODS.

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COSSETS.

PRINTS.

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Tbade“ S QU LI ETTA*

Owing to the fact  that we were unable 
to  meet  the  demand for Chamoise  moc­
casins  last  fall,  we advise  placing your 
orders now.
We  have  them  in  all  grades  ranging 
from $1.85  to $4.75  per dozen.
SEND  FO R  SA M PLE.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,
Veit, M sM iiier & Go.,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,

NOTIONS,

CARPETS,

CURTAINS.
Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Etc,

Manufacturers of

Elegant  Spring  Line  of  Prints, Ging­
hams,  Toile  Du  Nord,  Challies,  White 
and  Black  Goods,  Percales,  Satteens, 
Serges,  Pants  Cloth,  Cottonades  and 
Hosiery now ready for inspection.
Chicago and  Detroit Prices Guaranteed.

48, SO and 52 Ottawa St. 

GRAND  RAPID S, 

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---- AND----

Carpets, 
Rugs,
«  Curtains. ~
Floor  Oil  Glottis

W rite  for  our  Prices  on

---- AND----

Oil  Gloth  Bindings.

SMITH  &  SANFORD.

EÄT0N,  LYON  i  C0„

JOBBERS OF

A  Completo  Line of

HAMMOCKS,

FISHING  TACKLE,

MARBLES,
- —  BASE  BALL  GOODS = =
Our new sporting goods catalogue will  be  ready 
EATO N, LYO N  & CO.,

about February 10th.

20 and 22  Monroe  St.

The  Story of Don.

A woman lived alone with her dog.  To 
the dog there  was little in  the  world  be­
sides the  woman—she fed him  and  kept 
him warm  and  comfortable,  and  he  was 
grateful.
To the woman there was nothing in the 
world besides the dog.  He  stood  guard 
over her poor  possessions while she  was 
away at  her  work,  and  when  she  came 
home at night he was glad to see her and 
barked  with delight.  He  was  a  friend, 
loving,  and  kind,  and  true;  what  more 
could she ask?
She had had  something  more—or  was 
it less?  There had been  a man,  who was 
her  husband,  and she  had  fed  him  and 
kept him  warm and comfortable, but  he 
had not been grateful.  He  had not even 
guarded  her possessions  while  she  was 
away at  her  work.  He  had  sold  them 
and pawned  them,  until they  were  piti­
fully few—then  he had  gone  away  and 
left her.
And she had  lost all faith  in  men and 
had  become to  be  cynical  and hard,  for 
nature had somehow reversed things sad­
ly in the  man and the  dog  that she  had 
known  best—the dog was noble  and  the 
man was a cur.
There are bad dogs and good dogs  just 
as there are bad  men and good men,  and 
this woman  happened  to  have known  a 
better class of dogs than of men.
One  day  the  dog  sickened.  His  legs 
stiffened  and  his  body  grew  rigid, the 
pupils  of his  great  honest eyes  dilated 
until there was neither sight nor recogni­
tion  in  them,  and  his  breath  came  in 
quick,  shuddering  gasps.  Then  there 
was  a  gradual  relaxation  of  the  tense 
muscles,  and  he  lay  limp  and  panting, 
trying  by  a  feeble  wag  of  his  tail  to 
show his dear mistress that he kuew her.
Soon the  paroxysms  came  again,  and 
now and then  a  low,  pitiful  moan,  al­
most human  in its  agony, told  how  the 
poor beast  suffered.
Each convulsion left  him  weaker,  un­
til at last, with a  great effort,  he  raised 
his head a little and  licked his  mistress’ 
hands  with  a  tongue  already  cold  and 
stiffening, then his  head fell back heavi­
ly and there was  a rattling in  his  chest, 
and he was dead.
With a quivering sigh the woman drew 
the dog’s head into her lap as she  sat be­
side him on the floor.  She did not weep. 
Her  eyes were  hot and  dry.  She  took 
his  soft  ears  between  her  fingers  and 
stroked  them  as  though  he  had  been 
alive.  He was  the  only  thing  she  had 
had to love.
A shadow fell across the threshold and 
a man called her  name.  An  angry look 
came  into her eyes as she saw her truant 
husband before her.
His  voice  was  gentle  and  his  words 
were full of  repentence.  “I  have  come 
back to take care of you,  Anne,  if I may. 
We will go  to some new country and put 
the old life behind us.”
The  woman spoke  no  word,  and  the 
man stooped down  and patted  the  dog’s 
neck.  “Don, old fellow,  you were more 
of  a  man  than  your  master,” he  said. 
“Don was  loyal  and  true,  Anne,  and  I 
was not; but  if he could he  would  plead 
for  me  now,  for  I  feel  that  I  am  not 
humbling myself  enough when  I  ask  to 
take  his—the  dog’s—place,  Anne, 
in 
your heart.  Poor,  neglected little wife, 
will you let me try?”
lips trembled  and the  hard 
lines in the  woman’s  face  was  softened 
by  tears  as  she  bowed  her  head,  and 
there, over the faithful heart of the dead 
dog,  their hands clasped in the new com 
pact.

The  stern 

New  Automatic  Appliance  in  Making 

Sheet  Iron.

A  new  invention,  which  promises  to 
have  an  important  bearing  upon 
the 
sheet iron  industry,  which  has  just been 
introduced  by  Messrs.  Davies  Brothers 
&  Co., Crown  Galvanizing  Works,  Wol­
verhampton,  is  noted  in  the  Engineer 
and Iron Trades Review.  The invention 
consists in the  substitution of  automatic 
machinery for hand labor for picking and 
galvanizing the sheet iron and in passing 
it to the  packers.  The plant  includes  a 
new system of  rolls and a wire tramway. 
An immense saving results  both in labor 
and in material used.

T H E   M C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N ,
Hardware Price Current.

HAMMEBB.

7

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dlS.

60
Snell’s........................................................... 
Cook’s ..........................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine......................................  
25
Jennings’,  imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................8 7 50

AXES.

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D.  B. Bronze...............................  12 00
S.B.S. Steel................................  8 50
D. B. Steel...................................   13 50

BARROWS. 

Railroad......................................................8 14 00
Garden................................... ...............net  30 00

dis.

dis.

Stove.  ...........................................................50&10
Carriage new list.........................................  
75
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
TO
Sleigh shoe................................................... 

BUTTS, CAST. 

Well,  plain................................................... 8350
Well, swivel......................................................  4 oo
Cast Loose Pin, figured........................... 
70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60*10
Wrought Table.............................................60*10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................7G&10
Blind, Shepard’s .........................................  
70

dis.

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85................ 

60

BLOCKS.

CKAOLES.

bolts. 

BUCKETS.

CBOW BABS.

Grain..................................................... dis.  50*02
Cast Steel............................................per B>  5
Ely’s 1-10............................................ perm 
Hick’s C. F .........................................  
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G. D ....................................................   “ 
Musket................................................ 
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Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire.........   ...............................dis. 

65
60
35
60
50
25

CARTRIDGES.

CAPS.

Socket Firmer..............................................70*10
Socket Framing............................................ 70*10
Socket Corner............................................... 70*10
Socket Slicks............................................... 70*10
Butchers' Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

chisels. 

dis.

dis.

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s ....................................... 
Hotcnklss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12@12*4 dis. 10

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Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52,14x56,14x60 ....................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
Bottoms.............. 
Morse’s Bit Stocks.....................................  
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 

 
skills. 

 

dis.

30
28
25
25
27
50
50
50

SKIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per pound................................   6*4

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 In...........................do*, net 
75
Corrugated.....................................dis. 20*10*10
Adjustable............................................dis.  40*10
dlS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Clark’s, small, 818; large, 826 ....................... 
Ives’, 1,818; 2,824 ;  3, 830 ............................ 

p il e s—New List.

Dlsston’s ..............................................
New  American.....................................
Nicholson’s  .  .......................................
Heller’s .................................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........................
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  a n d   24;  25  a n d   21 
List 

GALVANIZED IRON

12 

14

Discount, 60

13 
GAUGES. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s.....................  

dis.

30
25
......60*10
...... 60*10
......60*10
50
50
...... 

i;  27 
15 

28 
18

50

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diS.

dis.

dis.

HINGES.

dis.
dis.

HANGEBS. 

levels. 

LOCKS—DOOB. 

HOLLOW WARE.

wire goods. 

HOUSE  PURNISHINO  GOODS.

Maydole  & Co.’s.......................... ..........dis. 
25
Kip’s.......................................................dis. 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s..................................dis. 40*10
Meson’s Solid Cast Steel........................ 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ..............................dis.60&10
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 in. 4*4  14  and
3*410
*4........... ............ net
%........... ............ net
8*4
............ net
7*4
%........... ............ net
7*4
50
...........dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track..................................... 
40
60
Pots............................................................... 
Kettles.......................................... 
 
60
Spiders  ........................................................  
60
Gray enameled............................................. 40*10
Stamped  TinWare................................... new list 70
25
Japahned Tin Ware..................................... 
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33*4*10
Bright......................................................70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70*10*10
70
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  ... 
knobs—New List. 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings..................  ... 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain..................  
70
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t................... 55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s...........................  
55
-Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
Adze Eye.................................  
816.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye.............................................. 815.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s......................................818.50, dis. 20*10.
dis.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled..........
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleable«___  
“  Landers,  Ferry & Cle, k’s................. 
“  Enterprise 

40
40
40
25
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d is.
60*10
Stebbln’s Pattern................  
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Steel nails, base..............................................1 80
Wire nails, base.
20 
Steel. 
Wire.
Advance over base :
Base
.. Base 
60................................
.. Base 
50................................
10
06 
40................................
20
30.................................
10 15 
2030
20......  .............
15
35
16................................
35
..  15
12..  ............................
10.....................
40
...  20 
...  25 
50
...  40 
65
7*6.
..  60 
90
...1  00 
1  50
...1  50
2  00 
Fine 3................................................1 50
2  0090 
Case  10.............................................  60
1 00 
8....................................  
75
1  25 
6.............................................  90
1 00 
Finish 10..........................................   85
1  25
8............................................ 1 00
1 50 
6.............................................1 15
75 
85
901 00
8...... .................................. 1  00
6...........................................1 15
2 50 
Barren %...........................................1 75
dis.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy............................  @40
Sciota Bench...........................................   @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy....................   @40
Bench, first quality..................................  @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood......  *10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dis.60—10
Common, polished................................ dis. 
70
dis.
Iron and  Tinned...........  ............................ 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

Clinch; 10.......  

HAULS.
h il l s . 

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MOLASSES GATES. 

rivets. 

NAILS

PLANES.

Broken packs *4c per pound extra.

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ROPES.

dis.

sq u a r e s. 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, *4 inch and larger.............................  
7*4
Manilla.........................................................  11*4
Steel and Iron.............................................. 
75
Try and Bevels............................................. 
60
M itre............................................................ 
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
83 10 
3 20 
3 20 
3 30 
3 40 
3 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14.....................................84 20
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 20
Nos.  18 to 21.....................................4 20
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 20
Nos. 25 to 26................................. ..  4 40
No. 27 ...............................................   4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86............................... ......dis.
Silver Lake, White A....................
...... list
**
Drab A.......................
White  B....................
«*
DrabB.......................
White C.....................
«»

SAND PAPER.

50
50
55
50
55
35

SASH CORD.

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Discount, 10.

Solid Eyes......................................

SASH WEIGHTS.

SAWS.

die.

TRAPS. 

Hand........................................
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,. 
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.
“  Special Steel Dia.^X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Champloi 
hampion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root

30
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker................................ 18c per doz
Mouse, delusion..............................81.50 per doz.
dis.
Bright Market..............................................  65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   62*4
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.  .........................  3 40

wire. 

dlS.

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painted....................................  2 85

horse nails.
Au Sable...............................dis. 25*10@2S*10*05
Putnam................................... .. 
dis.  05
Northwestern................................ 
dis. 10*10
dis.
wrenches. 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75
Screws, New 1 1st..........................................70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...............  
50*10*10
Dampers, American................................. 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.................  66

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dis.

 

 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

 

614

ZINC.

SOLDER

26c
  28e

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars...............................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
600 pound  casks........................................... 
Per pound............................................  ....  7
*4@*4.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping.................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s ......................................  
13
TIN—MSLYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................8 7 50
7 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9 25
14x20 IX, 
9  25

Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

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ROOFING PLATES

10xl4IC,  Charcoal...................................... 8 6 50
6 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8 00
14x20 IX, 
00

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

 
 
 

 

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BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
6  50
..........................  8  50
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
...........  ...........  18 60
14x20 IC, 
5  75
7 25
14x20 XX, 
12 00
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
15 00
14x28  IX....................................................  814 00
14x31  IX......................................................... 15
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i 
10
14x60 IX,  “ 
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Mnnd 
t per  P°una 

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A M M U N I T I O N

GUNS.

GRAND  RAPIDS

3 3 ,  3 5 ,  3 7 ,  3 9 ,  41  L o u is   S t.,  lO  & 12   M o n ro e   St.

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MichiganTradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. 

A  W EEK LY   JO U RN A L  D EVOTED  TO  T H E

Retail Trade  of the lolilerine State,
The  Tradesm an  Company, P roprietor.

Subscription Price, One  Dollar per year, payable 
Advertising Rates made known on apjlicatlon. 

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered at the Grand Rapid» Post Qjf.se.

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY.  AUGUST  36,  1891.

THE  OTHER  SIDE.

Who  Demanded,  a Deposit.

A Business  Man’s  Talk  With a  Tailor 
He  was a substantial  and  well-known 
business  man  of the  city,  and  when  he 
walked into a tailoring establishment the 
other  day,  he  asked  in  a  business-like 
way to  be shown  some plain gray  goods 
for  a  business  suit.  The  second  piece 
shown him struck his fancy and he asked 
the cost,  told  how  he  wanted  it  made, 
and had his measure taken.  Then hand­
ing the tailor his card,  he said:

“Your place was  recommended  to  me

by M r.-----, who always deals here.”

After asking  when he  should  call  for 

it he started out.

“We always require a  deposit of  $10,” 

suggested the tailor.

“A what?”
“A deposit of $10.  You  know,  some­
times people forget to come after clothes, 
and  they  have  to  be  sent  to  the  misfit 
man.”

“You  mean  you  want  me  to  pay  $10 

W ritten for Thk Tradibman

A young  lady who  recently accepted a 
position  in  one of  our  large  dry goods 
stores,  was asked how she liked  the bus­
iness.  “I  am  more  than  pleased,” she 
replied,  “it  has been a great  surprise to 
me.  Before I entered that store no per­
son  could  have  made  me  believe  that 
there are so  many different kinds of peo­
ple  in  the world.”  She  had  only been 
engaged  in  the  business  about  three 
months,  yet she  fancied  that  the  great 
everchanging  human  panorama  must be 
nearly  exhausted  and  she  expressed  a 
fear  that  it  might  become  monotonous 
after she had been made acquainted with 
the different varieties of  the human fam­
ily.

Only three  months behind  the counter 
and  a  knowledge of  mankind acquired ! 
No, my  young  friend, twenty-five years, 
nay,  a whole life time behind the counter 
will not  be sufficient to unfold  this won­
derful panorama  and give  you a glimpse 
of  the  infinite  variety  of  mankind  and 
the limitless number of phases of human 
character that abound in the world.  Go 
ask  the  oldest  merchant in the  city and 
he  will tell  you that the very last day he 
spent behind the  counter gave him some 
new view of  human  character  or  some 
human  eccentricity  never  before  wit­
nessed.  This  mutability  of  the  human 
character  is  the  spice  of  counter  life. 
The  monotony  of  a  life  behind  the 
counter would  not  be  endurable were it 
not  for  this  variety. 
If  all  mankind 
were  exactly  alike,  like  so  many  ma­
chines,  the  counter  would  be  a  tomb­
stone  marking  the  place  where  some 
unfortunate being was buried alive.

down?”

ness.”

fit?”

“ Yes  sir;  its  necessary  in  our  busi­

“Suppose  you make  a  mistake  in  the 

“Oh, we always  make  them  fit before 

they go out.”

Now see here,  Mr.  Tailor, suppose you 
get things  mixed and  cut  out  my  cloth 
on the pattern  of that  slab-sided,  slope­
shouldered,  bandy-legged dude you  just 
measured.  Do  you  suppose  altering 
would  do  them  any  good?  Not much. 
Now you have had a square whack at me; 
you must have gone all over my anatomy 
with that string and triangle.  You have 
punched  me  in  the  side  and  poked 
around to find out where the joints were, 
and  if you  havn’t  done it  right I  don’t 
I’ll  tell 
expect to  pay  for  it.  Hear? 
you  what  I’ll  do, 
though: 
I’ll  give 
you a $500  bond to be here  on  time  and 
take  the clothes  if they  fit,  leaving  the 
question of  fit to  a  committee  of  three 
selected  tailors.  But  you  will  have  to 
pay the  expenses.  Or  I’ll  do  this:  I’ll 
pay you  for the suit now if you will give 
me a bond of the same  kind to make  the 
clothes fit or return  the  money  with  in­
terest.  But you  must pay all  expenses. 
If you don’t  want those  terms,  partner, 
you can look  me  up  in  Bradstreet’s and 
find out who I am  and make the duds, or 
you can pay  me for  the  trouble  of  sub­
mitting to this measuring business.  See? 
But you don’t get any contingent fee  out 
of me on a suit of clothes.”
The tailor took the risk.
Euppenheimer  Bros,  have  gotten  out 
a new  brand of  cigars,  which  they  have 
designated the  “ Registered Pharmacist.” 
The  label is  a fac simile  of  the  certifi­
cate of  registration  issued  by  the  State 
Board of Pharmacy.

The study of  human nature  is  always 
an  interesting  study. 
Its  interest  lies 
in  the  fact  that  it never  can  be  fully 
mastered,  and also in the  little surprises 
that  the  student  is at  all  times  subject 
to.  Unlike the disciple of Euclid,  he has 
no infallible  axioms,  rules  or  principles 
to  aid  him  in  arriving  at  facts  or  in 
founding  conclusions.  He is  more  like 
the  student of  meteorology  who  founds 
his  conclusions  upon  certain  forecasts 
and visible  outlines which  are  very un­
certain and  sometimes  lead  us to expect 
sunshine  when-  as  a  matter  of  fact  we 
get  rain.  The  student of  human nature 
is in some respects similar to the student 
of  orthography who finds  his  rules sub­
ject  to  numerous exceptions,  and as  the 
latter  is  not  sure of  his  word  without 
referring to the dictionary, so the former 
is  never  quite  sure of  his man  without 
testing  him.  To  study  metallurgy  one 
must  go  down  into  the  mines  and  up 
among the  rocks and  unearth  his  speci­
mens and see them as they are,  and so to 
study human nature one must place him­
self in a position where man  can be seen 
as he is unmasked and  in  colors  true  to 
nature.

A  position  behind  the counter  is  the 
very place  from  which to view  man and 
see  him  as he is.  He  leaves  mask  and 
cloak on the  outside  and when he comes 
out  he  puts  them  on  again. 
If  he re­
ceives  back  too  much  change  through 
mistake  and  slips it into  his  pocket,  he 
is a thief  in spite of  the  cloak he wears. 
If Mrs.  Blank  tells you that  she can buy 
the  “very  same  identical”  shoes  in  an 
adjoining town  for $2.35 when  they cost 
you $2.50, you  may  safely conclude  that 
Mrs. Blank is a consummate liar although 
she does not  know that you  know it. 
If

T H E   M I C H I G A iJ   T R A D E S M A N
LIFE  BEHIND  THE  COUNTER. 

a man  come  in  with a “doubly  strong” 
whisky breath  and  after  buying a cigar 
and half a pound of  plug tobacco, refuse 
to buy a yard of  ribbon for  his wife or a 
five-cent  mouth organ  for his  little boy, | 
because  the  drought  is  drying  up  his 
corn and he can’t afford it, he is a “mean 
contemptible brute, and ought to be hung 
up by the  heels and  nibbled, to death  by 
young ducks.”  The “smart fellow” who 
knows more about your merchandise than 
you  do  yourself, and  who  always  uses 
his own  judgment  because  he considers 
it  more  valuable  than  yours,  is  a  fool 
and  always  pays  more  for  his  whistle 
than  anyone  else.  The  man  with  the 
long-handled  button  hook  knows  that 
the  husband of  the  woman  who  comes 
back  with a pair of  French  kids  which 
have  been  ruined  and  rotted with  foot 
perspiration,  and  after  contaminating 
the  atmosphere of  the  store  with  their 
putrid remains cooly demands a new pair 
for  them, is a martyr to slow poison  and 
will  die  with  a  broken  heart.  On the 
other hand this  same knight of  the  but­
ton hook  knows right  well that the  lady 
who  returns  with a pair of  shoes  which 
her  daughter  had taken  home to try  on 
and  which were two  sizes too  small  for 
her,  and  in  an  apologetic way  calls the 
attention of  the knight  to  the  fact  that 
two  buttons  were torn off  and the  soles 
soiled,  and  cheerfully  expresses  a  wish 
to pay what is right for the damage done 
is a noble Christian lady whether she be­
longs  to a church  or  not. 
If  she  had 
made  the  mistake  herself  on  her  own 
account,  it  would denote  that  she  was a 
vain, silly old prude.

And so we might  go on  and write vol­
ume after  volume by way of  illustrating 
how it is that  people  reveal  their  inner 
selves and expose their true natures when 
they approach the counter.  A  man may 
wear a mask  successfully in  the church, 
at  the  club,  on  the  street  and  in  the 
social  circle,  but when  he  stands up be­
fore  the  counter  the  mask  tumbles off, 
the clasp snaps and the bundle of human 
riddles opens up like a book.

If  it  be  true  that a man’s heart is his 
pocketbook.  then  the  mystery would  at 
once  be  solved,  for  surely no  one  pos­
sesses  greater opportunities  for  looking 
into  the secret  recesses of  men’s pocket 
books than those who operate behind the 
counter. 
If I were desirous of obtaining 
reliable  information  pertaining  to  the 
character  of  any  certain 
individual  I 
would not apply to that individual’s pas­
tor, his  doctor nor his  social friends. 
I 
would no doubt  receive  some light  from 
these different  sources,  but  if  I  wanted 
to get at the true  inwardness of  the man 
I  would  take  a  bee-line  for his  grocer. 
Am  I  truthful, upright  and  honorable? 
Go ask  the man  behind the  counter who 
waits upon me from  day to day and  su{^ 
plies  me with  food and  raiment.  Don’t 
ask my pastor, for he,  poor fellow,  is the 
worst imposed  upon and the  most easily 
deceived  person  in  the  community  and 
therefore  he  does  not  know  anything 
about  it.  Don’t  ask  my social  friends, 
for society is  a  sham and  a  masquerade 
and  each  member wears a mask  so  per­
fect that  the closest  social  intimacy can 
never discover what lies beneath.  Why, 
the quiet old man  just around the corner 
who keeps my children shod and supplies 
me with the coffee 1 drink every morning 
for  breakfast  can tell  you  more of  my 
true  character  in  five minutes than  the 
most intimate friend I ever knew.

And so, in  conclusion,  we repeat that a 
position  behind  the  counter is the  best 
possible  one  in  which  to  study human 
nature  and  that  the  only  thing  that 
makes life  behind the counter endurable 
is this  variety in human  nature which is 
continuously  unfolding  new  phases, 
freaks  and  eccentricities  showing  that 
man  is  the  great  human  chameleon  of 
the animal kingdom. 

E. A. Owen.

The Print Department.

F. O. C ruikshank in Dry Goods Bulletin.

In the large city stores the department 
devoted to prints embraces  calicoes,  cot­
ton,  draperies, Canton and cotton crepes, 
cheese cloths and cotton batting.
It is the quite general opinion that the 
print  department  yields  a  very  small 
profit  as  compared  with  other  depart­
ments, but  my  experience  leads  me  to 
believe that it may be  made very profita­
ble if the merchant will  “keep  his  eye” 
on the stock.
There is no  line of  goods  which gives 
more  trouble  through  change  in  styles 
than calicoes.  So  often  do they  change 
that  the merchant  who does not  dispose 
of his  entire stock  at  least  once  in  six 
months  invariably  suffers  loss  through 
the accumulation of unsalable stock. 
If 
the  customer  sees  the  same  pieces  of 
goods  every  time  she  calls,  she  soon 
makes up her  mind that the  merchant is 
endeavoring to force the sale of unpopu­
lar patterns.  This feature can, of course, 
be easily and  effectually dealt with,  and 
I find  it  the  more  profitable  way.  As 
soon as a pattern shows indication of los­
ing  favor,  it  is  immediately  torn  into 
pieces of various lengths, folded, labeled 
with price and  thrown  on  the  remnant 
counter.  We  do  not  expect  to  realize 
much profit on  remnant sales,  but  it is a 
quick and satisfactory  way of  disposing 
of such goods as naturally accumulate.
The remnant counter must not be filled 
with  undesirable  goods—a  merchant 
should not purchase such  patterns if  he 
can  avoid it,  but the  best  posted  buyer 
will  occasionally  err  in  judgment,  and 
when the error is  discovered  the  quick­
est is the best way out. 
If a large quan­
tity of remnants  accumulate,  I find  that 
they may be easily disposed of  by adver­
tising  a “remnant  sale”  in  the  papers, 
marking the  goods as low  as consistent. 
This  not  only  “makes  quick  work”  of 
the goods but draws trade to the  depart­
ment.
The  Arnold  “Gold  Seal”  and  “A,” 
“B” and “C” German  blue shows indica­
tion of a heavy  sale  this  fall;  they  are 
made full width and attractive  patterns. 
Throughout the West  there are very  lit­
tle prints sold that count below 64 sqaure, 
or are less than  27 inches in  width.  Of 
course, narrow and  low count goods  can 
be  sold  cheaply,  but  my  experience  is 
than  when  displayed  beside  the  wide 
measure and higher counts the  latter are 
far oftener taken.  Calicoes  of  the  best 
quality  are  cheap  enough  at 
ruling 
prices and are none too good for the uses 
to  which they  are  put,  and  I  find  that 
each year  shows  a  decrease  in  the  de­
mand  for low counts and  narrow  meas­
ures.  Some dealers  buy them to offer at 
low prices. 
It is questionable,  however, 
whether the effect of such sales are good, 
as people are disposed to reckon a  great­
er difference  between  them  than  really 
exists.
The sales  of  merchandise  in  a  large 
city in  a  measure  presage  the  sales  in 
smaller  towns. 
I  will,  therefore,  say 
that the  following goods, which  are  go­
ing very briskly with us, will undoubted­
ly find ready sale in the country:  Cameo 
draperies, Canton  crepes,  fifty  different 
shades  of  cheese  cloth,  cocheco  wide 
blacks and East Lake cheviots.
In the above I have merely  outlined  a 
portion of my observations in the depart­
ment of  prints. 
I  have  never  found  it 
necessary to run  that  department  at  an 
actual loss,  nor on barely self-sustaining 
margins.  There  are times  when  a  few 
yards must be sold at an actual loss,  but 
if the merchant will be  careful to  select 
only  attractive  patterns, and  a  quality 
suited  to the  demands  of  his trade,  the 
profit of  the print  department is as  sure 
as that of notions.

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9

SAGINAW  MATTERS.

E. J.  Fish  has  sold  his  confectionery 
stock to B.  M.  Brown,  who was formerly 
engaged in the same business at Chicago.
A. S.  Livermore,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  grocery business  on  Potter street,  is 
now engaged in the manufacture of mince
meat. 

________________

The  grocery  stock of  A.  Haule & Son, 
on Potter street,  was taken possession of 
by  McCausland  &  Co.  by  virtue  of  a 
chattel mortgage, last Friday.

Prall  &  Jones  have  admitted  W.  H. 
Gilbert  as  a  special  partner,  he  having 
contributed  $10,000  to  the  firm  capital. 
The  style of  the firm  remains  the  same 
as before.

Frank E. Youmans has sold his interest 
in the drug firm of Youmans & Gallagher 
to  his  partner,  who  will  continue  the 
business under  the style of  E. W.  Galla­
gher.  The  stock  has  lately  been  re­
moved  from  2,701 to 2,728  South  Wash­
ington avenue.

Hamilton & Biles have opened a grocery 
store at the corner of Carroll  and Second 
streets, McCausland & Co. furnishing the 
stock.  Dr.  Hamilton,  the  senior  mem­
ber of  the firm is a practicing  physician 
at  Fairgrove,  and  the  business  will  be 
under the management of Mr.  Biles.

The  Grocers’ First Picnic.

“I’ll tell  you how  it  happened,”  said 
President W. D.  Regan.  “The whole af­
fair has been  arranged  inside  of  seven 
days.  We  have  in  Saginaw  what  is 
known as the Retail Grocers’ Association. 
At a  meeting  held  last  week  only  five 
members  were  present,  and  in  order  to 
infuse more  enthusiasm into the  organi­
zation I  proposed  that  we  give  a  grand 
excursion,  asking  the  wholesalers  and 
commission  men  to  join  us.  The idea 
took and a committee of hustlers was ap­
pointed to  call  on  the  grocers  and  see 
what they thought of  the  scheme.  The 
result is that every  grocery  house in the 
city is  closed  to-day  and  here  we  are, 
with  our  wives,  our  children  and  our 
friends, all with well-filled lunch baskets, 
and bound for a good  time.”

Thursday,  August  20,  will long be  re­
membered as a red letter day  by the gro­
cers of Saginaw,  for  it marks the date of 
the largest and most successful excursion 
ever  taken  out  of  the  Valley. 
It  re­
quired three  trains  to  transport the pic 
nicers to Bay Port and the roster showed 
2,100  jolly, jovial  souls—all  determined 
on a day’s enjoyment,  rain or shine.

The trains arrived at their  destination 
between 10  and 11  o’clock,  when  lunch 
baskets  were  brought  into  requisition 
and those not  provided  with  lunch  pat 
ronized the hotel and stands.  The party 
then gathered at the pavilion and listened 
to brief addresses by  W. D.  Regan, John 
A. Combs and E.  A.  Stowe, during which 
time a  welcome  shower  came  to  settle 
the dust  and  cool  the  atmosphere.  As 
the showers  continued at  intervals  dur 
ing the afternoon,  the  games  and  athle­
tic  contests were  practically  abandoned 
and the time given over to dancing, boat­
ing, bathing,  visiting and  merry-making 
generally.  The ball game was partially 
played  and  the “running  race  for  boys 
over  50  years  old”  was  won  by  Seth 
Davis.  The first section of the returning 
train left for the  city about 4:30 and  the 
last section reached home about 8 o’clock. 
All  united in  declaring  the  day  one  of

the most pleasant  they ever  experienced 
and “Grocers’ Day”  will  hereafter  be  a 
regular annual feature  in  the  Saginaws.
The management  of the picnic  was  in 
most  excellent  hands,  President  Regan, 
Secretary  Spangler and  Master  of  Cere­
monies  Hughes  devoting  most  of  their 
time for days to accomplish  the splendid 
success they  achieved.  They were  ably 
assisted in their efforts  by  the following 
committees:

Transportation----Ed.  Mann,  A.  D.

Spangler, R.  Luster, Jr.

Master of Ceremonies—H.  V.  Hughes. 
Aids—J. J.  Keho, C.  F.  Zwerk and P.  F. 
Treanor.

Judges— Richard  Luster,  Sr.,  A.  G. 

Beckrow,  H.  E. Borden.

Badges—Alex.  Draper, Wm. Owen. 
Commissary—S.  A.  Price,  M.  M.  Hay­

den, Chas.  Rammele.

Finance—W. G.  Regan,  Joseph  W.  C 

Pendell, Henry J. P.  Graebner.

W.  C.  Glines,  State  agent for  Fleisch 
mann & Co., contributed  the  badges and 
preliminary  announcements of  the  pic­
nic,  Symons  Bros.  &  Co.  paid  their  re­
spects with several  boxes  of  cigars  and 
Weil,  Martin  &  Fish  donated  several 
kegs of liquid  refreshments.

It  has  been 

the  privilege  of  T h e 
T radesm an to  be  represented  at  many 
grocers’  picnics,  but  no  organization 
ever  conducted  its  first  picnic  so  suc­
cessfully as the  Saginaw  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation.

Wholesalers  Who  Retail.

From the New York Sun.
In strolling  up  Broadway it is  no  un­
common  sight to see in the windows and 
doors  of  a  big  wholesale  establishment 
igns to the  effect that  no  goods will  be 
sold  at  retail.  The prohibition  applies 
to the general  public,  but does  not meet 
the cases of  numerous friends who  take 
great  pleasure  in  saving small  sums by 
buying  at  wholesale. 
They  not  only 
save  the  difference  between  the  prices 
charged by the manufacturer and retailer, 
but  they also secure  the novelties  ahead 
of  the  time  they  are  placed  upon  the 
etail  market.  Very  few  wholesalers 
will sell  at  retail to the  general  public, 
although  some  firms  are not  averse  to 
making  small  sums  in  that  way;  they 
always  charge  a  good  round  price  for 
their wares,  however, frequently as much 
as the retailer.  But  it is  an  understood 
thing  among  merchants  that  one  mer­
chant shall  be able  to  purchase  at  cost 
from another such little things as he may 
desire  for his personal  use or the  use of 
his  family. 
It  is,  therefore,  no  infre­
quent  thing  for a merchant  to  tell  his 
wife  when she  wants to purchase mater­
ial  for  her  dress  to  go  to  this  or  that 
merchant,  say  that  she  is  his  wife,  and 
secure whatever she wants. 
In speaking 
of this a merchant said the other day: 
“While  no wholesale merchant of  any 
prominence  cares to  sell  at  retail,  very 
few  object to obliging a fellow merchant 
or  his family,  and there is no  reason for 
so  doing.  A  merchant tells  his wife  to
go down  and see  M r.-----, in the leather
goods  business,  and  pick  out  such 
shopping  satchel as she  may desire.  He 
also  lets her  know that she  must not in 
trude at the  busiest  time of  the day nor 
interfere  with  the  conduct of  the busi 
ness  any  more  than is absolutely neces 
sary. 
If  the  merchant  himself  wants 
anything  he  simply  drops  around,  ex­
plains just what he wants, perhaps looks 
over the stock  himself,  and  decides very 
quickly.  He never requires any waiting 
upon  or  anything  of  that  sort,  and  is 
ready  to  return  the  favor at any  time. 
In  fact,  where  merchants  know  each 
other  well  it  is  not  at  all  unusual for 
them to refuse to charge each  other any­
thing for small purchases.”

The  Dry  Goods Market.

Brown  cottons  are  cheap.  Bleached 
cottons  are  steady.  Prints  are  without I winter  trade, 
change.

TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Spices  and  B aking  P ow der,  and  Jobbers  of 

Teas. Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries.

1 and 3 Pearl  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS

If you would be  A  LEADER, handle only goods of

V A L U E .

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cheap, unreliable  goods.

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To Clothing and General Store Merchants—

It  will  pay  you  well to see  our  line of  fall  and  winter 
clothing, especially our elegant line of  the real  genuine “Tre- 
voli  Mills”  all wool  fast  colors.  Kersey  overcoats  at  $8.50 
and  $9, silk  faced, single  and  double  breasted.  Also  our 
Melton  overcoats  and  one of  the nicest  line of  Ulsters in all 
shades, grades  and  material in the  market.  Our  Chinchillas 
are up to the equal standard, the whole  selected from  the best 
foreign and domestic goods.

S T T iriT T O -S .

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We have an excellent  assortment in fine worsted, cheviot, 
pequay, meltona, cassimere and other famous mills.  We have 
a  reputation of  over 30 years  standing  established for selling
clothing  at  such  reasonable 
excellent made  and  fine  fitting 
cater  for  all  classes.  Our 
prices  as  enables  merchants  to
Prince Alberts  have got a world fame popularity and our line 
of pants is most attractive.
William  Connor,  for  nine  years  our  representative  in 
Michigan,  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  in  Grand  Rapids  on 
Thursday and Friday, September 3 and 4, and will be pleased 
to show our  line.  Expenses  paid for customers  meeting  him 
there, or he will  wait upon you if  you  drop  him a line to his 
address at Marshall, Mich., or we will send samples.

M IC H A E L   K O L B   &  SON,

W holesale Clothiers,

Rochester, N. Y.

William  Connor  also  calls  attention to his  nice  line of 
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TELE  M TCEÎia^Llsr  T R A D E S M A N .

W h o le s a le   P r i c e   C u r r e n t*

Advanced—Gum opium, oil  rose, linseed oil.

Declined—Acid  citric, Malaga  olive oil, quinine, 

P. & W., turpentine.

AClDUJt.

....................  

Aceticum...................  8®  10
Benzolcum German..  80@1  oo
Boracic 
30
Carbollcum...............   23@  35
Citrlcum....................   52®  55
Hydroehior................  3®  5
Nitrocum 
.................   10®  12
Oxalicum...................  11®  13
20
Phosphorium dll........ 
Salley licum ................ 1  36®1 70
Sulpnuricum......... . 
IX®  5
Tannieum....................1 40@1 60
Tartaricum.................  40®  42

AMHONIA.

Aqua, 16  deg................314®  0
20  deg................5)4®  7
Carbonas  ...................  12®  14
Cbloridum.................  12®  14

ANILINE.

Black........................... 2 00@2 25
Brown........................   80@1  00
Red.............................   45®  50
Yellow........................ 2 50®3 00

BACCAB.

Cubeae (po.  90)........   90®1  10
Junlperus..................   8®  10
Xanthoxylum.............  25®  30

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba......................  55®  60
Peru............................  @1  60
Terabin, Canada......   35®  40
Tolutan......................  35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Cassiae  ...............................  11
Cinchona Flava  .................   18
Kuonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica Cerifera, po.............  20
Pninus Virgini....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   14
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)........  10

KXTRACTUM.
24®
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra... 
33®
po...........
Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11®
Is.............. 13®
14®
)4s............
16®
348............
FERRUM.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Carbonate Precip........ @
Citrate and Quinta — @3
Citrate  Soluble..........
@
Ferrocyanidum Sol — @
Solut  Chloride..........
@
Sulphate,  com’l ......... 1)4®
pure............
®

“ 

FLORA.

Arnica.......................
Anthémis..................
Matricaria 
......

18®
20©
25®

FOLIA.

“ 

“ 

GUMMI.

« 
» 
“ 
“ 

Cape, (po.  20).

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin

......... ......... 20®
nivelly.................... 25®
Alx. 35®
and  )4s.................... 12®
8®

Salvia  officinalis,  Vs
lira Ural......................
Acacia.  1st  picked —  
@
2d 
“  __
3d 
....
“ 
©
sifted sorts...
©
po................. 60@L]
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)... 50®
®
®30®
®50®
52®
35®
@3
80®
@

“  Socotri, (po. 60). 
Catechu, Is, ()4s, 1414s, 
16).......
Ammonlae 
Assafcetlda, (po. 30). 
Benzolnum............
Camphor*.............
Euphorbium  po  ..
Galbanum..............
Gamboge,  po.........
Gualacum,  (po  30)
Kino,  (po.  25)......
Mastic..................
Myrrh, (po. 45)......
Opll.  (po. 3 20)----
Shellac......... .......
bleached...
Tragacanth

10@2
23®
28®
“ 
30®
He r b a —In ounce packages.

MAGNESIA.

.........   25
Absinthium..................
.........   20
Eupatori urn..................
.........   25
Lobelia......................
Mentha  Piperita...... .........   23
«  V ir.............. .........   25
Rue............................ .........   30
Tanacetum, Y........... .........   22
Thymus,  Y................ ............  25
Calcined, Pat................ .  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat............ .  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M... .  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennlng5. .  35®  36
OLEUM.
Absinthium.................. .5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dale...
.  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarao... .8 00@8 25
A nlsl................................ .2 00@2 10
Auranti  Cortex.......... .3 60®3 75
Bergami!  ...................... .3 75®4 00
70®  80
Cajlputl..........................
Caryophylll.................. .  90@1 DO
C edar.............................. .  35®  65
Chenopodi!..................
@2 00
Cinnamoni!.................. .1  15@1 20
Citronella......................
@  45
Conlum  Mac................ .  35®  65
Copaiba  ........................ .1-20®1  80

Cubebae..................   .  @ 7 50
Exechthitos..................   2 50©2 75
Erigeron.........................2 50@2 75
Gaultheria......................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
Gossipli, Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  ...................l  85@2 00
Juniper!......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis.......................... 2 50®3 10
Mentha Piper...................2 90@3 00
Mentha Verid................. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00@1 10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................   85@2  75
Plcls Llquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Ricini..............................1 04®1 20
Rosmarlni......... 
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  ®6 50
Succini.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 3 50@7 00
Sassafras.  .................   45®  50
Sinapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tiglii..........................  @100
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.

BICarb...... ................  15©  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
28©  30
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14®  16
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 86@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com... 
®  15
Potass Nitras, opt......  
8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  7®  9
Prussiate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

“ 

Aconltum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)......   10@  12
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)...................  @  35
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po....................... 2 40@2 50
Iris  plox (po. 35@3S)..  32®  35
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  Xs..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75®1  00
“  cut......................  @1  75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
Splgelia..............:___  48®  53
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  30®  35
Senega.......................  50®  55
Simllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  ©  20
Scillae, (po. 35).............  10® 12
Symploearpus,  Foeti-
  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15®  20
ingiber a ....................   10® 15
22® 25
Zingiber  j .................. 

dus,  po.............  

SEMEN.
..  @ 15
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  22®  25
Bird, Is......................... 
4® 6
Carui, (po. 18)...............  8® 12
Cardamon........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Sati va.........  
4®4 %
Cydonium....................   75@i 00
Chenopodlum  ............   10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate........2 00@2 25
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po...... 
6®  8
L ini............................4  @4)4
Linl, grd,  (bbl. 3)4)...  4  @4)4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlaris Canarian__3)4®  4)4
Rapa............................. 
6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu...............  8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

SPIR1TU8.
Frumenti, W.. D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R .......1  75®2 00
1  10@1  50
 
Juniperls  Co. O. T ,...l  75@1  75
“ 
.......... 1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ........ 1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli........... 1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba....................... 1  25®2 00

SPONGES.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................... 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ...................  
Hard for  slate  use__ 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use.......................... 

2 00
1  10
85
,65
75
1  40

 

SYRUPS.

Accacia...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri  Iod.............................   50
Auranti  Cortes..............  ...  50
Rhei Arom..........................   50
Simllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
SclUae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunua  vlrg........................   50

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

.  66 
.  50 
.  60 
.  60 
50 
0
.  60 
.  60 
.  50 
.  50 
.  50 
.  75 
.  50 
.  75 
.  75 
.1  00 
.  50 
.  50 
.  60 
.  50 
.  50 
.  50 
.  50 
.  50 
.  50 
.  60 
.  50 
.  60 
.  50 
.  50
....  75
....  35
__   50
....  50
__   50
....  50

TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellls R. 
F .
Aloes..........................
and myrrh........
A rnica.......................
Asafcetida..................
Atrope Belladonna__
Benzoin......................
“  Co...... ..........
Sanguinarla...............
Barosma...............
Cantharides...............
Capsicum..................
Ca damon...................
Co...............
Castor.........................
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Co................
Columba.....................
Conlum.......................
Cubeba........................
Digitalis....................
Ergot...........................
Gentian.......................
“  Co....................
Guaica........................
ammon............
“ 
Zingiber.....................
Hyoscyamus...............
Iodine..........................
“  Colorless...........
Ferri  Chioridum.........
K ino...........................
Lobelia........................
Myrrh........  ...............
Nux  Vomica...............
Opii...............................  85
“  Camphorated..........  50
“  Deoaor.........................2 00
Auranti Cortex..............   50
Quassia.........................  50
Rhatany  .............................   50
Rhei...............................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol.............  50
Serpentaria...................  50
Stromonium........
Tolutan..............
Valerian............
Veratrum Veride.

Co..............  50

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

per

1 
“ 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26®  28 
“  4 P ..  30®  32
Alumen....................... 2)4© 3

“ 
ground,  (po.

7)  ............................  3®  4
Annetto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po.............  
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin..................   @1  40
Antifebrin..................  @  25
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  ©  68
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Hs
11;  Mb,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o ............................
@1  20 
Capsid  Fructus, af...
@  20 
®  25 @  20
gpo.
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  12®  13
Carmine,  No. 40.........  @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  .....................   @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centraria....................  ©  10
Cetaceum..................   @  42
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squibbs ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50® 1  70
Chondrus".........
20® 25
Cinchonidine, P. &  W 15® 20
German  3)4® 12
Corks,  list,  dis.
cent  ..............
60
@ 50
Creasotum........
© 2
Creta, (bbl. 75)..
5® 5
“  prep.........
9® 11
“  preclp......
@ 8
“  Rubra......
Crocus....   ......
28® 30
© 24
Cudbear.... .......
Capri Sulph  __
5® 6
Dextrine...........
10® 12
Ether Sulph......
68® 70
Emery,  all  numbers.. ©
@ a
po.........
Ergota, (po.)  60.
50® 55
Flake  white__
12® 15
@ 23
Galla.................
Gambler...... ......
7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
“ 
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
bybox60and 10
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerina..................17  @  25
Grana Paradis!...........  @  22
Hnmnlus....................  25®  55
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @  90 
“  Cor ....  ®  80
Ox Rubrum  @1  10 
Ammoniati.  @1  10
Unguentum.  4t@  55
Hydrargyrum............   ®  70
Ichthyobolla, Am. 
.1  25®1  50
Indigo........................   75@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 75@3 85
Iodoform....................  @4  70
Lupulin......................  35©  40
Lycopodium..............  45®  43
M ads.........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Llqnor Potass Arslnltis  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1)4)..........................  
2®  3
Hannia,  S. F ............  
50®  60

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“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

Ä 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W... 1  95@2 
C. Co.......................1  85@2
Moschus Canton........  @
Myristica, No. 1.........   70®
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @
Os.  Sepia......   ...........  28®
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co ...........................   @2
Picis  LIq, N. C., H gal
doz  .........................  @2
Picis LIq., quarts......   @1
pints.........   @
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   ®
Pix  Burgun................  @
Plumb! A cet...... . .....   14®
Pulvis Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @1
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®
QuasBiae....................  8®
Quinia, S. P. & W......  31®
S.  German....21  @
Rubia  Tlnctorum......  12®
Saccharum Lactis pv.  @
Salacin.......................1  80®1
Sanguis  Draconis......  40®
Santonine  ....................  
4
Sapo,  W ......................  12®
”  M.......................  10®
“  G.......................  @

“ 

@ 25
@ 18

Seidlitz  Mixture__
Sinapls....................
‘r  opt...............
Snuff,  Macc&boy,  D
Voes.................... ..  @ 35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 12).
.  11®  12
.  30®  33
Soda  et Potass Tart.
Soda Carb...............
1)4©  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
@  5
Soda,  Ash...............
.  3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas.........
©  2
Spts. Ether C o........
.  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom...
.  @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp...
@3 00
‘  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 27).....................
@2 37
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal...
@1  30
Sulphur, Subl.........
.  3  @ 4
“  Roll..........
•  2?X@ 3)4
Tamarinds..............
S®  10
Terebenth Venice...
.  28®  30
Theobromae...........
.  45®  50
Vanilla.................... 9 00®16 00
Zlnci  Sulph............
7®  8

OILS.

Whale, winter.........
Lard,  extra..............
Lard, No.  1..............
Linseed, pure raw  ..

Bbl.  Gal 
70
70 
60
55 
45 
56
39 
42

“ 

paints. 

Lindseed,  boiled  __   42 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............  
50 
SpirltsTurpentlne__  41 

11
45
60
46
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............ix   2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars... IX  2@4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2)4®3
“  strictly  pure.....2)4  2X@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ..........................  
Vermilion,  English__ 
70@75
Green,  Peninsular......  70©75
Lead,  red....................  7  @7)4
“  w hite............... 7  @7)4,
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
1  o
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
Cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.................... 1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................100@1  70
Coach  Body.............. 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turn Furn...  ..1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp....................... 
70®  76

G e t  W hat  You  Ji.sk  F o r!

—HINKLEY’S  BONE  LINIMENT-

FOR  THIRTY-FOUR  YEARS  THE  FAVORITE.

Enclosed in White  Wrappers and made by D. F. FOSTER,  Saginaw, Mich.

D ru gs  M edicines*

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

One  T ear—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Two  Tears—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Three  Tears—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
Pour Tears—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
Five T ears—George Gundrum, Ionia.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor, D etroit.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Nov. i

Meetings  for  1891 — Houghton,  Sept.  1;  Lansing 
Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass'n. 

President—D. E. Frail, Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President— H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. 
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, D etroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in  October, 1891.________
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President. W. R. Jew ett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott, 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March 
__________
June, Septem ber and December. 
Grand Rapids D rug Clerks’ Association, 
resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Smith.

D etroit Pharm aceutical  Society. 

President, F. Rohnert;  Secretary,  J. P. Rheinfrank.
M u s k e g o n   D rag Clerks’  Association. 

President  N. Miller;  Secretary, A. T. W heeler.
Arnica  as  a  Skin  Poison.

“There  are  but  two  cases  on  record 
where  tincture of  arnica  acts  as  a  skin 
poison,” remarked  H.  B.  Fairchild,  the 
other day,  “and  one  of the  cases I  hap­
pened to be  familiar  with. 
It  occurred 
at  Rochester  about  twenty  years  ago, 
when a man  purchased a bottle at a drug 
store in  which I was employed and  used 
it on one  of his  legs.  The limb  swelled 
up to ponderous size and the man was  so 
disabled  for a week that he  was  unable 
to  work.  The  attending  physician  as­
sured him that the arnica must have con­
tained some poisonous ingredient,  on the 
strength of which he brought suit against 
the druggist for damages.

related  his  experience  with 

‘-‘A few  weeks  afterward,  and  before 
the case had come to trial,  the man came 
Into a store at Spencerport,  over which I 
was  in temporary  charge,  and asked  for 
some arnica to bathe  his horse’s legs,  as 
it was badly troubled with the scratches. 
He 
the 
Rochester druggist and charged me speci­
ally  to be  careful  to  give  him  nothing 
but the pure article. 
I did as requested, 
but  the next day  after  it  had  been  ap­
plied the  man’s arm was as  large  as  his 
body. 
It then occurred  to him that per­
haps the tincture  was not at fault and  a 
careful  examination  of  the 
reference 
books of the medical fraternity disclosed 
the fact that  there was a  case on  record 
where arnica acted  as a skin poison.  The 
cases  were  so  similar  that the customer

was  satisfied  the  druggist  was  not  at 
fault and  he,  accordingly,  dismissed  the 
damage suit and paid the costs  of  suit.”

The  Drug- Market.

Opium,  which  has  been  selling  here 
cheaper than in Europe,  has advanced to 
about  the cost of  importation  and  some 
large holders have withdrawn their stock 
for  the  present.  Morphia is unchanged. 
Quinine  is  steady  for  foreign  brands. 
P.  & W.  reduced their price two cents on 
the 17th.  Citric acid has declined.  Olive 
oil,  Malaga, has  declined.  Oil  rose  has 
advanced.  Linseed  oil  has  advanced, 
hut is still below the cost of manufacture. 
Turpentiue is lower.

A Model  Store.

Prall &  Jones  have  leased  the  double 
store in the Eddy  block,  corner of  South 
Washington avenue  and  Genesee  street, 
Saginaw,  and  will  shortly  open  therein 
the  finest drug  store in the West.  Solid 
mahogany fixtures  are  now  being  made 
in  Boston  and  it  is  expected  that  the 
opening  will  occur  about  Oct.  1.  Mr. 
Prall will  have charge  of the new  store, 
while  Mr.  Jones  will  devote  his  entire 
attention  to the  store  of  the firm  at  the 
present location.

A Wise  Father.

A man who  wanted to  learn what pro­
fession he would  have his son enter  put 
him into a room  with  a  Bible,  an  apple 
and a dollar bill.  If he found him,  when 
he returned, reading the  Bible he  would 
make a  clergyman out of  him;  if  eating 
the apple,  a farmer;  and  if interested  in 
the  dollar  bill,  a  hanker.  When  he  re­
turned, he found the  boy  sitting  on  the 
Bible,  with  the dollar bill  in  his  pocket 
and  the  apple  almost  devoured.  He 
made a politician of him.

How to Mend Rubber Overshoes.
Rub  the  patch  and  shoe  thoroughly 
with sharp sandpaper.  Smear both  with 
liquid  rubber five  times, every time  let­
ting them  dry.  Do this  once  more,  and 
before  they  dry  apply  the  patch  with 
pressure,  and  the  shoe  is  mended. 
If 
liquid  rubber is not  obtainable  dissolve 
small pieces of  pure rubber  (not vulcan­
ized)  in  warm  spirits  of  turpentine  to 
the consistency of syrup.

GHTSB1TG  HOOT.

We pay th e highest price for It.  Address« 

" D P riX T   'P 'D  A Q   W h o le s a le   D r u   .g is ts ,
r i l l / J l   JjIlUlO.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.
Full  Weight. 

Standard,  per  lb.................................654 
“  H.H......................................   654 
T w ist..................................  6>4 
“ 
Boston Cream  ................................. 
Cut  Loaf.............................................  754 
Extra H. H.......................................... 754 

Bbls.  Pails.
7V4
754
7*4
954
854
854

MIXED  CANDY.
Full Weight.

Bbls. 
Standard.......................................654 
Leader.......................................... 654
Special...................................
Royal.....................................
Nobby....................................

Conserves.
Peanut Squares.
Extra...............
French Creams. 
Valley  Creams.

fan cy—In bulk. 

Full Weight.

Chocolate Drops..............
Chocolate Monumentala.

Pails.
754
8
8
854
854
8 5 4
8
854
9
10
1054
1354
Pails.
1154
1254
125414
6 5 4
9
954
1154
Per Box.

'54
'54
'54
r54

Bbls.
...1054
...11

...  8
...  854
...1054
is. 

12

G R O C E R IE S .

General 

Truck Farming Facts.

Now the first way to sell goods is  to  sell 
goods.  What  he  is  after  primarily  is 
that  which  is  conducive  to  this  end; 
schemes  for  simplifying  and  reducing 
labor,  while 
important,  must  remain 
secondary.  Consider  for  a  moment  the 
amount of  money  expended  in  the  dis­
play of  goods  by the  proprietors  of  the 
large  stores  in  our  cities, and  yet they 
do not aim to throw money away.
One  other  feature should  not  be  lost 
sight  of—people  as a rule  do not  know 
what  they  want.  A  neat  display  ma­
terially assists in the  selection,  and very 
seldom fails  to  sell  a  little  more  than 
when  the  customer  is  buying  out of  a 
grab-bag.
The one factor of keeping a handsome­
ly  appointed  store  has  often  built up a 
fortune. 
Is  your  store  such  that  you 
look in vain to find  one more  attractive? 
Even  if  it  is  not, and  you but  look  at 
other stocks with seeing eyes,  this article 
will not have been in vain.

Arrangement of a  Generel Store Stock.
From th e Dry Goods Bulletin.
Retailers  throughout  the  country are 
manifesting considerable interest in their 
“silent salesmen”—the  various  methods 
and  systems  employed in the  display  of 
goods.  There  is  a  sympathetic  action 
between  the eye  and  the purse  strings; 
when  one is assailed  the  other is  on the 
alert.
To  have  the  supply meet  the demand 
is  not  a  stroke  of  business  policy con­
spicuous  for  its  shrewdness, but  to  so 
arrange  your  supply  as  to  create  a de­
mand  is  a  subject  worthy of  considera­
tion,  and  any  method  successfully  em­
ployed naturally attracts attention.
storekeepers  unfortunately 
have  not  led  in  the  tasteful  display of 
goods, many of them manifestly working 
upon  the  basis  that  when  Mrs.  Smith 
wants a yard of calico she will come after 
it.  One blood-curdling thought connect­
“If  I  could  only  get a corner  on  the 
ed with this train of reasoning is: Where 
will Mrs. Smith go for the yard of calico? 
truck farms of this country,”  said a mar- 
That  well-worn  and  high-count  adage, 
ketman  with  a  turn  for  statistics,  “I 
“Go to the ant,  thou  sluggard,” suggests 
wouldn’t  trade  jobs  with Vanderbilt  or 
another,  somewhat  differently construct­
Gould if  they’d roll  both their  jobs into 
ed,  “Go  to  the  druggist, thou  bungler.” 
From  the smallest  hamlet to the  largest 
one.  What  do  you  think  the  truck 
city the  universal  effort of  the  druggist 
farmers  pulled  out  of  us  dealers  here 
is to arrange  his  wares  with  an  eye  to 
and there  about the country and  carried 
the  attractive  effect,  and  the  degree  of 
home with them  last year?  Only a little 
his  success, together  with  its  indisput­
able  effect  upon  the  net  profits,  should 
over  seventy-six  million  and  a  half 
excite a spirit of emulation  in the keeper 
That’t a ll!  Out of  that  they had to pay 
of the general  store that would  manifest 
their  help,  of  course,  which  cost  ’em 
itself in a more becoming state of affairs.
something  like  §9,500,000,  for  they hire 
The  subject of  window  dressing  has 
been quite  exhaustively treated by trade 
217,000 men,  to say nothing of  the 10,000 
journals  of  late,  many  very  valuable 
women  and  15,000  boys  that  help  out 
hints  having been  given.  The  value of 
with the work.  And their seeds knocked 
artistic  window  decoration  cannot  be 
about  a  million  and a half  more  out of 
overestimated,  but  in  according  to  one 
feature  the  prominent  position  its  im­
the  proceeds, and  they had to put  up  a 
portance justifies we should not lose sight 
trifle of  810,000,000  for  fertilizers.  But 
of  others  equally  important. 
In  refer­
after taking all that out, they had a good 
ring to druggists I did  not  suggest them 
as models  for  imitation,  but  rather  in­
round $50,000,000  left to put away in the 
spiration,  for  they are  manifestly acting 
sock for a rainy  day.  Yes;  you give  me 
in conformity with the law of the eternal
a corner on the truck farms of this coun-
fitness  of  things in making  the  interior 
arrangement  of  the  store  an  important  try and  you can  have all  that Gould and 
factor in trade-getting. 
useless  to  dress  the  window  tastefully 
and arrange  the  goods  inside  shabbily, 
as  the  contrast brings  out more  promi-  aarwood,  Aug.  19 
1  have  a  fine
nently  the  lack of  care,  and  the  stock  waterpower on Rapid  River, near  where 
suffers by the  comparison,  rendering the  tbe new extension of the Chicago & West 
window  display,  if  not  actually  detri-  Michigan crosses said river, near enough 
It  is  a 
mental,  at  least of  no  benefit. 
to  run  a  side  track,  which,  with  the 
wise  merchant who  makes  the  window 
necessary  ground  for  building,  I  am 
display  and the  interior  arrangement of 
anxious to give away.  Who wants it?
goods inducers  and  reducers  respective­
Allan  F.  Little.
ly;  that  is, let  the  window be so fascin­
atingly  arranged  that it will  induce  the 
Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons.
customer to step  inside,  and,  when  once 
inside,  have the display of  goods such as 
C rockery & G lassw are
to reduce the fascination to dollars.
I shall not at present enter into  any of 
the  details,  but  will  speak  of  a  few of 
the  advantages  and  disadvantages  in  a 
general way.
that  the  nature of  the stock  carried  by 
the  general  storekeeper  is  such  as  to 
LAMP  CHIMNEYS.
render the  labor  connected with  artistic 
No. 0 Sun............................
...  1 75 
interior  display  excessive;  this  is  more 
No. 1  “  .............................
....1   88 
conspicuously  true  when  compared  to 
No. 2  “  .............................
....2 70
the druggists’s  stock—a stock  in  which 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.........................................2 25
the  display is ordinarily such  as  to  ad­
No. 1 
2 40
mit of  sufficient examination,  while  it Is 
No. 2 
3 40
the  fiendish  delight  of  womankind  to 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top...................................... 2 60
hold  the fort until  every piece of  goods 
.......................................2 80
No. 1  “ 
in the  store  has  been thrown  upon  the 
No. 2 
“ 
8 80
Pearl top.
counter. 
It is time  and space wasted  to 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled....................3 70
adduce fallacious arguments to the effect 
No. 2  “ 
....................4 70
that  a  stock  is a stock,  and if  one  mer- | no. 2 Hinge, 
....................4 70
chant  can  keep  his  stock  in  order  an-  La Bastic. 
other  can;  such  is  not  the  case. 
It is  »«; \ sHn> ^
infinitely  more  work  to keep  the  store j No. 1 crimp, per doz............. ...                       1 35
handling  piece  goods in order  than  the  No. a 
........................................1  60
one  handling  package  goods.  While 
there  are many ways of  simplifying  the 
operation,  I  do not  aim to show  how  it  Pints......................................................11 00
can be done  without labor;  the  question  $«ifSLiYnn4........................... ...... 50
simply is,  “to be or  not to be”  tastefully  Rubbers__55
arranged.  Can  we  say,  “It  is  such  a j Caps  only...............................................   4 50
task to arrange  our stock  neatly that we ! 
have  abandoned  it,”  and  produce  as  Butter Crocks, 1  imda^a!..................  06^
satisfactory  results  as  by  taking  hold  Jugs, 54 gal., per d
o
75
and  fixing  things  up?  Hardly.  The j 
“ 
............................... 1  go
merchant  does  not  keep  store  for  his  Milk pans, 54 gal., 
«0
health;  he  is  in  business  to  sell goods. |  •• 
1  «* 
“ 
•>  goc).  ..  72

It  is worse than  Vanderbilt make,  if you want it.”
Free  W aterpower  Privilege.

No. 0 Sub.........................................................  45
75
Tubular.............................   ..........................   75

First quality.
“ 
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XXX Flint.
“ 
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may  most  consistently  be  argued | no. 2  “ 

ston kw a r e—a k r o n .
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 b?,lb- per„doz;  ;
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Mason’s or Lightning.

1  “ 
» 

6 doz. in box.

LAMP  BURNSRS.

f r u it  ja r s .

Per box.

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.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

at 15c.

Apples—Common cooking command $1.25@1.50 
per bbl.  Fancy eating are held at 52@3.
Beans—Dry beans are  firm  and  in  strong  de­
mand at 82 per bu. for choice hand picked.
31 Butter—Choice  dairy now  commands  15@17c, 
while  factory  creamery  has advanced to 20c.

Celery—20c per doz. bunches.
Cabbages—50@60e per doz.
Corn-Green, 8c per doz.
Cucumbers—10@15c per doz.
Eggs—Dealers  pay  14c  and  freight,  holding 
Grapes—Ives and Concord command 4c per lb.
Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.
Onions—80c per bu. for good stock.
Muskmelons—81  per  doz.  for  Osage;  50c for 
common.
Peaches—Hale’s Early are still in large supply 
commanding  81.50 @81.75  per  bu.,  including 
basket.  White freestone fruit commands  about 
the  same  price  Some  yellow  fruit  has  come 
into market  but in such limited  quantities  that 
no quotations are possible.
Pears—75c@81.25 per  bu.
Plums-8l.75@$2 per bu. for choice green gages. 
Common are sold as low as 81.
Tomatoes—In plentiful  supply  at  60@75c  per 
bu.  The crop is likely to be a large one.
Watermelons—15c  now buys  the best  melons 
which  come to this  market.  The  supply is am­
ple, although the  demand is good.

P O U L T R Y .

Local dealers pay as follows for live weight:
Spring  chickens.....................................10  @12
Fall  chickens........................................   7  @8
Turkeys...................................................10  @11
Spring ducks................. 
10  @12
Fall  ducks.............................................  9  @10
8  @9
Geese  .............................................. 

 

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

 

 

lard—Kettle Rendered.

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

Mess,  new............................... 
11  75
Short c u t.....................................................   12 50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  14 00
Extra clear, heavy.......................................
Clear, fat back.............................................  14 00
Boston clear, short cut................................  14 00
Clear back, short cut...................................   14 00
Standard clear, short cut, best....   .........  
14 00
Pork Sausage...................................................7
Ham Sausage...................................................9
Tongue Sausage..............................................   9
Frankfort Sausage 
.......................................  s
Blood Sausage.................................................  5
Bologna, straight............................................  5
Bologna,  thick................................................  5
Head Cheese....................................................  5
Tierces............................................................  854
Tubs.................................................................  8%£
501b.  Tins.......................................................   854
Com­
pound.
6
654
7
754
6
6
654

Family.
Tierces .......................
....654
0 and  50 lb. Tubs......
....6*
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case..............754
....754
5 ib. Pails, 12 in a case.
....7%
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case...............754
---•754
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a  case..............7
...7
50 lb. Cans..................................6%
...654
BEEF  IN  BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   8 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  8 50
Boneless, rump butts.....................................11  50
Hams, average 20 lbs...................................... 10J4
16 lbs...................................... 11
12 to 14 lbs...............................ID*
picnic...................................................  854
best boneless......................................   654
Shoulders........................................................  754
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.............................  954
Dried beef, ham prices...............................  10
Long Clears, heavy........................................... 754
Briskets,  medium...........................................  8

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

LARD.

“ 
“ 

light.

FRESH  MEATS.

Swift and Company quote as follows:

“ 

Beef, carcass.........................................   5  @6
hindquarters...............................  6  @  7
fore 
...............................3  @ 40
loins, No. 3..................................  @  854
ribs............................................   754@ 8
rounds........................................ 6  @7
tongues.................   ...................  @
Bologna.................................................   @ 5
Pork loins..............................................   @1054
.................................   @7)4
Sausage, bloc a rh ead .,.........................   @ 5
.......................... 
...  @ 5
................................   @754
Mutton...................................................7  @8
Veal.......................................................  654®  7

“  shoulders 

liver 
Frank 

“ 
“ 

FISH and OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Whlteflsh...............................................
Trout...............................................
Halibut..................................................
Ciscoes...................................................
Flounders..............................................
Blueflsh.................................................
Mackerel................................................
Cod.........................................................
California salmon.................................

oysters—Cans.

Falrhaven  Counts................................
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100................................
Clams, 
.....................................

“ 

@  8 

@ 8 @15 
@ 5 
@ 9 
@10 
@25 
@12 
@20

@40

1  50 
1 00

fancy—In 5 lb

“ 

Lemon Drops..................................................55
Sour Drops......   .............................................55
Peppermint Drops.......................................... 65
Chocolate Drops...............................................70
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops................................................... 1 00
A. B. Licorice Drops.......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................65
printed............................................70
Imperials..........................................................65
Mottoes.............................................................75
Cream Bar........................................................60
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams............................................. 1 00
String  Rock.....................................................70
Burnt Almonds.... ........................................ 1 00
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................65
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28
No. 3, 
42
Stand up, 5 lb. boxes.........................................1 10
4  50 
Sorrentos,  200.......................'.............
4  50
Imperials,  160....................................
@5 00
Messina, choice,  360..........................
fancy, 360.........................
choice 300.........................
fancy 390.........................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

CARAMELS.
 
 
 

ORANGES.

LEMONS.

“ 
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“ 
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“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

3 
2 
3 

 
 
 

“ 
“ 

@ 8 @ 6

choice

“  50-lb.  “ 

Figs, Smyrna, new,  fancy  layers........  18@19
@16 
@1254 
@10 

Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................
..........................
Persian. 50-lb.  box......................4
NUTS.
@17 
Almonds, Tarragona.............................
Ivaca......................................
@1654 
@17 
California..............................
Brazils, new...........................................
@ 754 
Filberts.................................................
@1154 
Walnuts, Grenoble................................
@1454 
“  Marbot...................................
@12 
Chili...... :...............................
“ 
@@14
Table NutB, No. 1..................................
@13
No. 2..................................
Pecans, Texas, H. P., large...................  @1754
@4  50
Cocoanuts, full sacks.
Fancy, H. P.,Suns............................
@  554 
“  Roasted.....................7
@   7M @ 554 
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............................
“  Roasted................... 7
@ 754 
Choice, H. P., Extras............................
@ 454 
“  Roasted.................
@ 654
HIDES, FELTS  and  FURS.

“ 
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PEANUTS.

“ 
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“. 

“ 

“ 

“ 

HIDES.

No. 2 hides 54 off.

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  follows:
Green.................................................
Part Cured..........................................
Full 
..........................................
Dry......................................................
Kips, green  ..................................  ...
“  cured.............................................5
Calfskins,  green....................................4
cured...................................   5
Deacon skins......................................... 10

@ 5 
@ 5 
®   55« 
® 7 
@454 
@ 554 
@  5 
® 654 @30
@25
Shearlings..............................................10
Lambs....................................................20  @60
Washed........................................................ 20@30
Unwashed.............................................. 
10@20
Tallow...................................................  354® 454
Grease butter  .......................................  1  @ 2
Switches................................................  154@ 2
Ginseng...  ........................................... 2 50@3 25

MISCELLANEOUS.

FELTS.

WOOL.

OILS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows,  i 

barrels, f. o. b. Grand Rapids:
Water White.........................................   @ 854
Special White............................  ..........  @854
Michigan Test.......................................  @ 7*
Naptha............................................   @ 754
Gasoline................................................   @854
Cylinder...............................................27  @36
Engine........   ................................13  @21
Black,  Sommer................................   @ 8

Whortleberries.

Strawberries.
1  «
Lawrence...................
2 25
Hamburg....................
1  65
Erie............................
1  40
Common....................
1  25
F. &  W.......................
1  30
Blueberries...............
Corned  beef,  Libby’s...... ..2  10
Roastbeef,  Armour's...... ..1  75
Potted  ham, M lb............ ..1  50
“  M lb.............. ..1  00
.1  10
M lb.........   93
95

“ 
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“  ,  chicken, M ih.........  

tongue, M lb.........

MEATS.

VEGETABLES.

Beans.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas

“ 
“ 
“ 

Corn.

Hamburg  stringless........... 1  25
French style......2 25
Limas  ................1  40
Lima, green......................... 1  30
soaked......................  90
Lewis Boston  Baked............1 35
Bay State  Baked.................. 1 35
World’s  Fair........................ 1 35
Hamburgh............... 
1  25
Tiger ...................................
Purity................................. 1  10
E rie.....................................1  15
Hamburgh marrofat...........
early June..........1  50
Champion Eng...
Hamburgh  petit  pois......... 1 75
fancy  sifted......1  90
Soaked................................   65
Harris  standard.................   75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1  10
Early June........1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom —  1  35
French................................ 1  80
Mushrooms.
French..............................17©18
Pumpkin.
Erie.....................................   90
Squash.
Hubbard.......................... 1  30
Succotash.
Hamburg  ............................ 1  40
Soaked.......................  
••  85
Honey  Dew......................... 1  60
Van Camp’s......................... 1  10
No. Collins...........................1  10
Hamburg.............................1  30
Hancock..............................1  05
Gallon — ...........................2 75
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
22
German Sweet.................. 
Premium..........................  
34
Pure.................................. 
38
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
40
Norway......................  @. 9M
N. Y. or Lenawee......   @  9M
Allegan  ..................   @ 9M
Skim..........................7  @  8
Sap  Sago....................  @22
.......................  @1  00
Edam 
Swiss, imported........  @  25
domestic  —   ©13M
Limburger..........................   10
Brick............................. 
1254
CHEWING  GUM.
Rubber, 100 lumps................35
200  “ 
Spruce, 200 pieces................40
Snider’s, M pint...................1  35

Tomatoes.

CHEESE.

CATSUP.

“ 

 

pint..................  
2 30
quart.......................... 3 50
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes.......................40
COCOA  SHELLS.
@4
Bulk............................
@7
Pound  packages...... . .
COFFEE.
GREEN.
Rio.

Santos.

Maracaibo.

Mexican and Guatemala.

Fair..................................... 20 i4
Good....................................21
Prime..................................21 M
Golden................................ 22 M
Peaberry  ............................23
Fair.....................................2054
Good...................................21
Prime.................................. 2114
Peaberry  .........................--22M
Fair..................................... 22
Good.................................... 23
Fancy...................................25
Prime.................................. 2214
M illed.................................2314
Interior............................... 26
Private Growth...................28
Mandehling........................29
Imitation............................ 25
Arabian............................... 2814
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 14c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
McLaughlin’s X XXX..  24M

PACKAGE.

ROASTED.

Mocha.

Java.

APPLE  BUTTER,

Chicago goods............. 7M@8

AXLE GREASE.
Frazer’s.

 

“ 
“ 

Wood boxes, per  doz.......  

80
3 doz. case...  2 40
“ 
per gross----- 9 00
“ 
251b. palls,.........................  1 00
75
15 lb.  “ 
 
A urora.
Wood boxes,  per  doz.......  
60
3 doz. case...  175
per  gross—   6 00

“ 
“ 
Diamond.

“ 
“ 

Wood boxes,  per doz  ......  

50
3 doz. case...  1  50
per  gross__   5 50

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Peerless.

lib .  “ 

Teller’s,  V lb. cans, doz. 

25 lb. pails.................... 
BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, M lb. cans, 3 doz 

90
...  45
“  M lb.  “  2  “  .... 85
i  “  .... i  oc
“ 
bulk........................   10
“ 
45 
“  .. .  85
“ 
“  .. 1  50
“ 
Arctic, M ft can s..............  60
..............  1  20
“  M ft  “ 
“ 
1 ft  “ 
..............2 00
5ft  “ ..................9 60
“ 
Red Star, M ft cans........... 
40
“  M ft  “ 
........... 
80
...........  1  50
1 ft  “ 
“ 
BATH BRICK.

M lb. 
“ 
1 lb.  “ 

2 dozen in case.

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

bluing. 

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  70
Domestic.............................   60
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals.............   4  00
8oz 
7 00
pints,  round..........10 50
No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
No. 3, 
...  4 00
No. 5, 
...  8 00
1 oz ball  .................   4  50
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl..........................  1 75
..........................2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.......................2 25
No. 1 
“ 
.......................2 50
Parlor Gem........................ 2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................  120
M ill...................................   3 25
Warehouse........................ 2 75
BUCKWHEAT  PLOUR.
Rising Sun...............................5 00
York State..........................
Self Rising...............................4 50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............  1054
Star,  40 
.............  1014
Paraffine............................12
Wlcklng.............................   25

CANDLES
“ 

“ 

CANNED  GOODS.

PISH.

“ 

“ 

«* 

“ 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Little Neck, T ib“8-..............1  10
2 lb................ 1  90
Standard, 3 lb.................... 2 30
Standard,  1 lb....................1  10
21b....................2 10
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb........................... 2 45
“  2  lb........................... 3 45
Picnic, 1 lb.........................2 00
“ 
21b..........................3 00
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.....................1 20
2  lb................... 2 00
Mustard,  31b.....................3 00
Tomato Sauce,  3 lb.......... 3 00
Soused, 3 lb.......................3 00
Columbia River, flat.........1  85
tails..........1  65
Alaska, 1  lb...................... 1  20
1  90
Sardines.
American  Ms..................   5@ ®
Ms................. 7@ 8
Imported  Ms....................
Ms....................13@14
@10
Mustard  Ms......................  @w
2 50
Brook, 3 lb.................

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

21b.

“ 

Trout.
PRUITS.
Apples.

Gages.

3 25
York State, gallons.... 
90
Hamburgh,  “
Apricots.
2 25
Santa Cruz.................
2 56
Lusk’s.........................
2 35
Overland..................
Blackberries.
90
F. &  W.......................
Cherries.
1 20
Red.............................
1 75
Pitted Hamburg.........
1 6f
W hite.........................
1 30
B rie............................
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie............................  @1  60
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  10
P ie............................. 1  60@1  75
Maxwell........;..........  
2 25
Shepard’s ................... 
2 25
California.................. 2 60@2 75
Domestic.................... 
1  25
Riverside.................... 
2 25
Pineapples.
Common..................... 
1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 60
2 85
grated........ 
Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red.........................  
130
Black Hamburg........  
1 SO
1 <0
Brie, black................. 

Peaches.

Pears.

“ 

Lion.................................... 2»m
Durham.............................. 24

“  in cabinets  ...............

EXTRACT.

Valley City.........................  75
Felix.................................. 1  15

T H K   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

Hummel’s, foil...................  1  50
tin ....................2 50

“ 
Bulk.
Red
Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
1  40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
90 
1  00
7 40
Eagle.
Crown.................................. 6 50
Genuine Swiss..................   8 00
American Swiss...................7 00

CLOTHES  LINES.
50 ft.
60 f t......... 
“
“
70 ft.........  
80ft.........  
“
60 ft......... 
“
“
72 ft-........ 
CONDENSED MILK.

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman.”
“ 
...... 
• ■  • •
“ 
“ 
......
*• 
 
» 
 
“Superior.”

$ 1, per hundred...............   2 00
2 50
*2,  “ 
“ “
3 00 
8 3 , “ 
3 00
8 5 , “ 
4 00
5 00
1  per hundred..............   2  50
4 00
5 00
6  00

8 5, 
810, 
820,

 

“Universal.”
“  
“ 
“ 
“
“

8  1, per hundred..............  82 50
....................3  00
8  2, 
8 3; 
................4 00
00 
8 5, 
---
810, 
6  00 
7 00
820, 
Bulk orders for above coupon 
books are subject to the follow­
ing  discounts:
200 or over............ 5 per  cent.
500  “ 

...  ......20

1000  “ 

............ 10

COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.

....  6

.................
................
.................
.................
..............................
CRACKERS.

I Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. I
20 books.........................®  1  00
2 00 
50  “ 
3 00 
100  “ 
6 25 
250  “ 
500  “ 
10  00 
17 50
1000 
“  
Kenosha Butter..................   714
....  6
Seymour 
............
Butter...........................
......  6
“  family..................
...... 614
“  biscuit................
40
......  714
Boston..........................
...... 7*
City Soda......................
......6
Soda..............................
...... 6
S. Oyster.......................
...... 6
City Oyster. XXX.........
CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly  pure
Telfer’B  Absolute..............  35
Grocers’................  
10@15

DKIF.D  FRUITS. 

Apples.

PRUNES.

14
«14
13
12

California Evaporated.

Sundried....................   @9
Evaporated................
Apricots...................... 
Blackberries.............. 
Nectarines................. 
Peaches  ....................  
Pears,  sliced..............
Plums.........................
Prunes,  sweet............
Turkey.......................  @ 614
Bosnia........................   @ §
@  »
French.
18
Lemon. 
18
Orange.
@24
In drum. 
@24
In boxes.
CURRANTS.
@ 514 
Zante, in  barrels........
in   M-bblB..........
in less quantity 
r a is in s —California
1  75
London Layers,  2 cr’n 
2 00
“ 
3  “
2 25
fancy.
“ 
1  40
Muscatels.2crown  ...
1  50
....
6M
Valencias...................
Ondar as...................... @  8M
Sultanas..................... @15

@ 53) 6

3  “ 
Foreign.

“ 
“ 

“ 

FARINACEOUS  GOODS

Farina.
Hominy.

4

100 lb. kegs...................
Barrels............................
G rits..................................
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................ 
6
Maccaroni and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box —  
45
Imported...................... 
1°
Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................... 3M@3M

Peas.

Split, i>bl............................. 6 00
German.............................  
«
5
East India..........................  

Sago.

Ckacked..

Wheat.

FISH—Salt. 

Bloaters.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Cod.

Whitefish.

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

IOM
24
11  00
75
2 75
1  50
........  9 00
........  1  20
bs__ 3 50
........  
45
3 50@4 00

Yarmouth..........................
Whole............................   @6
Bricks..........................   714@8
Strips..............................7M@9
Halibut.
Smoked...................
Herring.
Scaled......................
Holland,  bbls.........
kegs.........
Round shore, M bbl.
“  M  bbl
Mackerel.
No. 1, M bbls. 90 lbs.
No. 1, kits, 10lbs....
Family, M bbls., 100 
kits, 10  lbs.
Pollock.
Fancy......................
Sardines.
Russian, kegs....................
Trout.
No. 1, 14 bbls., lOOlbs...........5 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No. 1,14 bbls., lOOlbs...........7 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................1  00
Family, 14 bbls., 100 lbs  ...  2 75 
kits. 10  lbs............   50
Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla 
1  25
oz folding box...  75 
1  50
oz 
...1  00
“ 
.. .1  50
“ 
oz 
2  00
3 00
“ 
oz 
. -.2  00
4 (0
oz 
...3  00
“ 
GUN  POWDER.
.5 50 
Kegs............................
.3 00
Half  kegs....................
.15
Sage...  ......................
Hops..................   .......
JELLIES*.
Chicago  goods............
LAMP WICKS.
No.  .. - 
......
No. 1............................
No. 2...........................
LICORICE.
Pure.....................................  30
alabria...............................  25
Sicily...................................   18
Condensed, 2 doz.....................1 25
No. 9  sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor parlor..........................1 70
No. 2 home............................... 1 10
Export  parlor.......................... 4 25

MATCHES.

HERBS.

LTE.

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house...................... 
Ordinary.......................... 
Prim e............................... 
Fancy........ ...................... 
F air..................................  
Good................................  
Extra good:...................... 
Choice.............................. 
Fancy................................ 
One-half barrels, 3c extra

. New Orleans.

OATMEAL.

16
19
19
23
17
20
26
30
36

Barrels 200.................  @5  50
Half barrels 100................@2 88
Half  bbls 90..............  @288
Barrels  180.................  @5 50

ROLLED OATS.

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........85 00
Half  barrels, 600 count....  3 00 
Barrels, 2,400 count  .........   7 00
Half barrels, 1,200 count...  4 00
Clay, No.  218....................... 1  75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No.  3............................1  25

PIPES.

“ 
“ 

Domestic.
Carolina head....................... 7
No. 1..................... 6
No. 2.............   @5
Imported.

Broken...............................
Japan, No. 1..........................6M
“  No. 2.......................... 5M
Java....................................  5
Patna..................................   5

RICE.

ROOT BEER.

Williams’ Extract.

25 cent size.......................- 1  75
3 dozen.............................8 5 00
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box......  2 50
Hand 
SOUPS.
Snider’s  Tomato...
SPICES.

.  2 65

3

Whole Sifted.

Allspice...............................10
Cassia, China In mats........  7M
“  Batavia in bund — 15
Saigon in rolls.........35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna............... 22
“  .  Zanzibar.................13
Mace  Batavia..................... 80
Nutmegs, fancy.................. 80
“  No.  1.........................75
“  No. 2.........................65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 15 
“ 
“  white...  .25
shot.........................19
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice..............................I5
Cassia,  Batavia..................20
“ 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon.................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna.............. 30
11  Zanzibar..................20

“ 

18

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

F air............................. 18  @22
Choice.......................... 24 @28
Best............................. 40  @50

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Ginger, African...................15
Cochin...................18
Jamaica................20
Mace  Batavia......................80
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .25
Trieste...................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black— 20
“  white......30
Cayenne................25
Sage..................................... 20

- 

“ 

Ms 

Plug.

SUGAR. 

‘Absolute” in Packages.

Cut  Loaf............
@  5M 
Cubes...............
@  i% 
Powdered.........
@ 5
Granulated.  _ _
.4.44®   4M
Confectioners’ A
@ 4M @4.31 
Soft A  .......................
White Extra  C.........
@  4M 
@ 4M 
Extra  C.....................  4
@ 3M 
C ................................
@ 3M
Yellow 
....................
Less than 100 lbs. Me advance

Pails unless otherwise noted.
Hiawatha
Sweet Cuba..............
McGinty...................
“  M bbls........
14s
_  Little  Darling..........
Allspice......................  84  155
1 551 
V4 bbl.
Cinnamon..................   84  1  55
1  55  1791  ..........................
Cloves........................   84  155
1 55  1891, M bbls..............
Ginger, Jam ...............   84  1 55
1  55  Valley  City..............
Af...................  84
1  55  Dandy Jim ................
Mustard......................  84
1  55 
Pepper.......................  84
Searhead...................
34 
Sage.
Joker.......................
Z ero-.......................
L.  &  W ............................
Here  It Is.................
Old Style...................
Old  Honesty............
Jolly Tar..................
Hiawatha..................
Valley City..............
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s Brands.
Something Good.................... 38
Toss Up................................. 26
Out of Sight........................... 25
Boss..................................... 12M
Colonel’s Choice.................13
Warpath..............................14
Banner................................14
King Bee..............................20
Kiln Dried...........................17
Nigger Head........................23
Honey  Dew......................... 24
Gold  Block......................... 28
Peerless............................... 24
Rob  Roy..............................24
Uncle Sam...........................28
Tom and JeTry.....................25
Brier Pipe........................ ...30
Yum Yum...........................32
Red Clover...........................32
Navy....................................32
Handmade...........................40
Frog....................................33
40 gr.....................................  8
50  gr.....................................

STARCH.
Corn.
20-lb  boxes...........
40-lb 
.........
Gloss.
1-lb packages  ......
........
3-lb 
6-lb 
........
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............  4M
Barrels................................ 4M
Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, In jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars......43
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

6M I6
sJ

Smoking.

VINEGAR.

SNUFF.

SOAP.

6M 

“ 
“ 

“ 

SODA.

SAL  SODA.

Old Country, 80.....................3 20
Uno, 100................................ 3 50
Bouncer, 100....................— 3 00
Boxes...................................5M
Kegs, English...................... 4M
Kegs................................ 
1M
Granulated, boxes...............   2
Mixed bird.................  4M@ 6
Caraway............................... 10
Canary................................ 3M
Hemp................................... 4M
Anise....................................13
Rape................................... 6
Mustard...............................7M

SEEDS.

SALT

“

“ 

“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

82 40
2  15 
2 00 
1  50 
50

Diamond Crystal.
1003-lb. sacks..................
.................
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks...............
2014-lb.  “ 
.................
24 3-lb  cases..................
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags 
28 lb.  “ 
35
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags 
..  hs
28 lb.  “ 
561b. dairy  bags...............  
75
561b. dairy  bags...............  
75
56 lb.  sacks....................... 
27
Saginaw and Manistee.
Common Fine  per bbl...... 
90
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. -5M
Dwight's Cow........................5M
Taylor’s.................................5M
DeLand’s Cap  Sheaf.............5M
pure.........................5M
Golden H arvest...................

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.

SALERATUS.

“ 

SYRUPS.
Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels.................................28
Half bbls..............................30
Amber.......................23 
5
Fancy drips...............28  @30
SWEET GOODS.
7
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar  Creams............  
8M
Frosted Creams.........  
8
Graham Crackers......
Oatmeal Crackers—  
8
SHOE  POLISH.
Jettlne, 1 doz. in  box.............75

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

@17
@20@28
@34

BASKET  FIRED.

F air............................
Good..........................
Choice...................  - -24
Choicest......................32
D ust........................... 10
SUN CURED.
@17
F air............................
Good..........................
@ 20@26
Choice.........................24
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust................. .  - • • 10  @12
F air............................. 18  @20
Choice........................  @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to fair.......... 25  @35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @65
Choicest fancy............75  @85
Common to  fair........... 23 @26
Superior to  fine............ 28 @30
Fine to choicest......... 45  @55
Common to  fair............23  @26
Superior to fine...........30  @35
Common to fair..........18 @36
Superior to fine......... 30 @40

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

81 for barrel.
WET  MUSTARD.

Bulk, per gal  ................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 
r east-  -Compressed.
Tin foil cakes, per doz........... 15
Baker’s, per  lb....................... 30
PAPER & WOODEN WARE 
Straw 
.................................13£
Rockfalls..............................2
Rag sugar..............................2
Hardware..............................2M
Bakers.................................. 2M
Dry  Goods...................  5M@6
Jute Manilla................  @6M
Red  Express  No. 1...........   5M
No. 2............. 4M

PAPER

“ 

TWINES.

“ 

splint 

“ 
“ 
• 
“ 

WHEAT.

WOODENWARE.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l  5 
“ 
" 
“ 
“ 

48 Cotton............................  22
Cotton, No. 1....................... 20
“  2...................... 18
Sea  Island, assorted.........   35
No. 5 Hemp......................... 15
No. 6  “ .................................15
Tubs, No. 1.........................  7 00
“  No. 2.........................6 00
“  No. 3.........................5 00
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1  35 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop—   1  60 
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes —  
50
Bowls, 11 inch....................  1 00
13  “ 
....................  1  25
15  “ 
....................2 00
....................2 75
17  “ 
assorted, 17s and  19s  2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
Baskets, market.................  35
shipping  bushel..  1  20 
..  1  30
full  hoop  “ 
bushel.................  1  50
75
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 50
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 00
GRAINS andFEEDSTUFF8 
New  Old
98
No. 1 White (58 lb. test)  98 
No. 1 Red (60 lb. test)  98 
98
Bolted...............................  1 75
Granulated.......................  2 00
Straight, In  sacks ........  5  10
“ barrels............  5 30
“ 
Patent 
“ sacks.............   6 10
“ barrels...........  6 30
“ 
Graham  “ sacks.............   2 25
Rye 
“ 
...........  2 25
MiLLSTUFFs.
Bran..................................  15 00
Screenings.......................  16 00
Middlings........................   21  00
Mixed Feed.....................   26  50
Coarse meal.....................   27 00
Milling................................. 1 00
F eed...................................   75
[ Brewers, per 100  lbs............1 25
Feed, per  bu.......................  65
Small  lots.........................  75
Car 
“  .........................  72
Small  lots............................42
Car 
“  ............................37
No. 1.................................. 
00
No.2.................................   W 00

EARLEY.

FLOUR

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

HAY.

RYE.

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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

All  Night in  a   Big  City  Store.

From  the New York Advertiser.
At a few minutes before six o’clock one 
evening,  a  New  York  newspaper  man 
entered one of  the  mammoth  dry-goods 
stores on Fourteenth street,  and soon ob­
tained a pass from the owner to remain a 
night  in  the  place.  He  was  placed  in 
charge  of the  head  watchman,  a  bright 
little Englishman, who at once conducted 
him through the upper stories, where the 
clerks  were  already  beginning  to  take 
long sheets from under  the counters and 
cover the goods.  While  they  were  still 
at work a big  gong sounded on the  main 
floor,  and they began to hurry, for it was 
their time for leaving.
“It’s six o’clock,”  said the  watchman, 
“and  that  calls  one  department  from 
their counters to the cloak room.
The floor they  stood on  contained  the 
members of  the  department  called,  and 
in  less  than  two  minutes  not a  person 
was to be seen.
As  we  walked  down  stairs  the  gong 
rang again,  and  the  employes  hurriedly 
concluded  their  work  of  covering,  and 
disappeared.  The watchman led the way 
to the main floor,  where the  clerks  were 
just beginning to  cover the  low  rows of 
shelves and counters piled with goods.for 
the  store  was  yet  filled  with  shoppers 
who  seemed 
in  no  especial  hurry  to 
leave.  The fifth bell released all the em­
ployes  on the  main  floor,  and  the  sixth 
bell,a few minutes later,had thé same ef­
fect upon those in the  basement.
“My position  is now at the door,” said 
the watchman.  “Come  and sit down be­
side  me  and  see how  we  are  protected 
from robbery by employes.
All  the  entrances  but  this  one  were 
locked, and it left only one egress for the 
employes.  On one side of the door stood 
the watchman and opposite was stationed 
his assistant,  both  holding big  blue pen­
cils.
The employes, girls  largely in the ma­
jority,  now  began  to  flock  down  the 
broad aisle in a steady stream.  Each one 
was  closely  scanned  by  both  the  men, 
and  many of  them had  a  pleasaut  good 
night for  Eddie  the  watchman.  Those 
who  carried  bundles  containing  some 
purchases they had made during the day, 
presented them  to the  watchman and he 
marked his  initials on the  stamp,  which 
told  that  the  package  contained  some­
thing  that  had  been  bought  by an  em­
ploye.  Those who  had books presented 
them so that  their identity could  not  be 
mistaken,  and  those carrying baskets  or 
bags opened  them  for  inspection.  One 
of the younger girls  walked up to Eddie, 
and  laughingly  exhibiting  her  pocket- 
book, said:

“A pocketbook,  twenty-five cents.”
“They  frequently  do  that,”  said  he, 
“just  for  fun.  You  know,  the  rule  is 
that  anything  being  carried  out  of  the 
store wrapped  up that does not bear  the 
office  stamp  I  must  open  and  inspect. 
Well, one  afternoon,  a  girl who had  cut 
her  finger  and  had  bound  it up  with  a 
piece  of  cloth,  held  it  up  to  me  as she 
was passing out and  said,  ‘A cut  finger, 
Eddie.’ 
I  marked my  initials on it,  and 
it seemed  so funny to her  that she often 
refers to it  when she  sees  me. 
In  fact, 
she  has  told  the  joke  over  the  entire 
store.”
For fully twenty minutes the girls and 
men walked  out in  a steady stream,  and 
then the human  chain began  to thin out 
and continue  in twos  and  threes,  linked 
arm-in-arm,  chums  who  had  waited  to 
walk home together.
At 6:30 o’clock the  watchman sent one 
of his assistants to  make the first tour of 
of inspection through the entire building 
to see  that  no  one  had hidden  away  in 
any of the  nooks or  corners of the store­
rooms and to guard  against any fire  that 
might  have  been  started  by  a  careless | 
employe while leaving.

As  soon  as the  watchman  left  on  the 
tour  the  porters,  six  in  number,  took ] 
away the  big  wire  mats  in  front of  the I 
doors,  and  opening  a small  trap door  in 
the  floor  near  the  open  door  received 
from  men  below  the  iron  gratings  and 
gates,  which had been stored in the base­
ment.  They screwed the  different parts 
in  their  proper  places,  and  then  their 
work for the day was over.  Soon  after 
they had gone a crowd of  nearly  twenty 
girls  came  down  and  passed  out.  The I

led 

said  they  were  the  book-keepers  and 
cashiers  in  the  office,  and  they  had  to 
settle up the accounts of the day and lock 
their safes before  leaving.  Sometimes, 
he said,  they were  detained until after  7 
o’clock.  But then  they don’t have to re­
port as early as the other employes.
Eddie then  left the  door in  charge  of 
his  assistant  and 
to 
the  way 
the  different  departments  on the  floor, 
where,  with  the help  of two other  night 
men,  he  pulled  down  big  iron  shutters 
from  the  ceiling, dividing the floor  into 
six  different  rooms.  Each  shutter  was 
pulled right down  to the  floor to test  its 
condition,  and then  raised  high  enough 
so that a  man of  ordinary  stature  could 
walk unde? it.  The shutters are used  to 
prevent the  spreading of fire.  Should  a 
blaze  be  started  in  one  department,  it 
would  be  immediately  inclosed  by  the 
iron shutters,  and  when the  firemen  ar­
rived their work  would be  comparative­
ly easy.  Each floor  is divided up in  the 
same manner.  Besides  this,  all  the dif­
ferent  departments in  the  big  building 
are connected  by  iron  doors,  which  are 
kept closed during the night,  and even if 
a fire  did  suddenly  spring  up  it  would 
have very  hard work to  burn more  than 
about one-fifth of one floor.
Suddenly  the electric  lights  were  ex­
tinguished,  and  as  Eddie  walked  up­
stairs he lighted the gas jets in the  halls 
with a wax taper he carried.
“Matches,” he  said,  “are  not  allowed 
in any part of  the building  at any  time. 
If an employe wants to  light  the  gas  in 
the daytime she must go  to  the  cashier, 
who will give her a lighted taper. 
I  am 
the  only  one  in  the  building  at  night 
who is authorized  to strike a  match. 
If 
any  of the other  watchmen need a  light 
they must come to me for a taper.”
When the  top floor had  been  reached, 
Eddie lead the  way to a big room in  one 
corner, which was  inclosed  with galvan­
ized iron.  He  opened  the  door and  ex­
hibited  an  immense heap  of  paper  and 
broken  cardboard,  which  had  been 
picked up  about  the  floors  since  morn­
ing,  for  the  porters  empty  the  yellow 
tubs twice a day.
“This  is  the  paper  room,”  said  the 
watchman,  “and  the  day’s  sweepings 
It is the only 
have not yet  been  added. 
really unsafe  place in  the  entire  build­
ing,  but even  if  the paper did  catch  fire 
it could not  burn five  minutes.  On  the 
roof, directly above it, is a big tank  con­
taining  thousands  of  gallons  of  water. 
Those  pipes  that run  about  the  ceiling 
are  connected  with  it,  and  the  moment 
a  blaze  started 
the  room  would  be 
flooded.”
When the reporter reached the  ground 
floor  again  the  watchmen  had  put  on 
their  overalls  aud  were  beginning  to 
sweep  the  store.  There  were 
three 
sweepers and  preceding them  were  two 
men  with  large  watering  pots,  lightly 
sprinkling the  entire floor.  Seated  at  a 
long table in  the rear of  the  store  were 
about a dozen young men writing in long, 
blank  books.  These were  the  drivers, 
who  get  in  late,  and  a  young  woman 
cashier is appointed  every night to  wait 
and receive their  money.  She  stays un 
til about 8:30, and  by that time  most  of 
the drivers have  returned. 
If  any come 
in after that hour they turn  their  money 
over to the head watchman.
Shortly  before  8  o’clock  two men  en 
tered  the  building  and 
took  off  their 
coats and  vests,  preparatory  to going  to 
work.  One of them came up to the  head 
watchman and  presented a  pass,  which 
was  to  the  effect  that  he  and  his  col­
league were to do  work in a certain win­
dow of  the store.  The  pass was  signed 
by the head of  the department  in  which 
the young men were employed.  On  the 
pass  were two blank spaces,  one for the 
time of the  arrival of the holder and  the 
other for the hour of  departure.  At the 
bottom this rule was  printed:

“Whoevpr comes  into this building on 
this pass will not be allowed to leave un­
til they leave  for good.  No  smoking  or 
liquor allowed.”

Several other  clerks who had been  de­
tailed to do overwork  arrived soon  after 
and  gave up  their passes  to  the  watch­
man,  who  signed  them  and  marked  on 
the hour.  When the clerks  leave  their

passes are returned, and  in the  morning 
they hand them to the  cashier,  who  will 
add that  much overtime  to their salaries 
at the end of the week.
At  9  o’clock  one  of  the  men left  his 
sweeping,  and,  taking a long taper in his 
hand,  started  on the first regular tour of 
his  inspection.  Situated at  the further­
most  parts of  the  store  from  the  front 
door  are  twenty  electric  clocks,  which 
each night are provided  with new disks. 
The  man making  the  tour  has  a  small 
key,  and  before  his duty  is  finished  he 
must insert  the  key into each  clock and 
turn it three times.  This  causes a small 
pinhole to be  perforated on the disk and 
records  the  exact  time  the  key  was 
turned.  The clocks are locked by a man 
during the  day,  and  cheating the  clocks 
would  be  an impossibility.  Once every 
hour the disk must  be  punched,  and,  as 
the  loss of  a  single  pinhole  means  the 
loss of a position, the watchmen are more 
than careful not to skip any clocks.  The 
watchmau whom the  newspaper man ac­
companied was a tall,  well-built  fellow, 
and seemed to like his work.  “No,’’said 
he,  “ we  do  not  fear  burglars  half  as 
much as we do  fire. 
I don’t believe  that 
a  dozen  armed  men  could  capture  the 
store, for  there are always  some  people 
working in  the place  besides the  watch­
men,  and the alarm would be given in an 
instant.  Yes,  we have to be very careful 
to guard  against  men  hiding away,  and 
at  every tour of  inspection  the  scuttles 
have to be minutely  examined.”
It  took  the  watchman  just  forty-five 
minutes  to  make  the  entire  tour,  and 
when  he returned to the  main  floor,  the 
newspaper  man  was  pretty well  out  of 
breath.  The  watchman  rested  fifteen 
minutes  and then  started  to  repeat  his 
trip,  and  this  work  he  continued to do 
until 7 o’clock in the morning.
The  sweepers  in  the  meantime  had 
been  busy  with  their  brooms, and  not 
until 
the  dirt  on  one  floor  had  been 
carried  out into a rear street  and loaded 
into a standing cart,  would  they take up 
another floor.  Besides  this,  every speck 
of  dust  was gone  over  by  two  men  in 
search of  lost  articles  of  jewelry.  The 
last  floor  was  not  swept  until  nearly 4 
o’clock,  and  then  the  men  returned  to 
the basement, and, armed with big feather 
dusters  and  rags,  began  to  dust  and 
polish.
At  7  o’clock  the  doors  were  thrown 
open  and the  porters  arrived.  They at 
once went to the rear  door and  admitted 
three big Italians  carrying heaps of  bag­
ging, and upstairs to the paper room they 
hurried.  As  each  bag was filled  it  was 
weighed,  and then  taken down  stairs by 
the  elevator. 
In  less than  an  hour the 
great  mass  of  paper  had  disappeared, 
and  the room  was as clean and  as  clear 
as a whistle.
At  7:30  the  men  and  girls  began  to 
pass in the open doors in a steady stream, 
and take their proper places in groups at 
different points of the store.  At 8 o’clock 
the  first bell  rang,  and  one  detachment 
of  employes  moved  toward  the  cloak­
room.
As  each  department was  admitted  be­
hind the railing of rope,  the head of that 
department  closely scanned  each face to 
see that no strangers were admitted.  At 
8:08  the  last  bell  rang,  and  then a sign 
was  hung  in  the  center  of  the  store, 
reading:

I.A T E .

Eddie,  the  watchman,  then  went  at 
once to the office and made his report for 
the night.  After  his  business was  over 
he  went  directly to the  front  door and, 
with  a  sign dismissed  the waiting assis­
tants.  One  by one  the  early  morning 
shoppers  began  to  drop  in.  The  big 
covers  were  whisked off  and  folded up, 
and the  great  store  became  j ust as you 
see it when you go there to buy.
A  Point to be  Decided.

“Yes,  the  ceremony  has  been  per­

formed and John and Mary are one.” 

“Indeed!  Which  one?”
“ Well,”  answered  the  father  of  the 
bride,  “from  what  I  know  of  Mary’s 
mother, 1 should  say—but,  ah!  here she 
comes.”

A. D. SPANGLER & CO.,

GENERAL

Gommission  Merchants

And Wholesale Dealers in

Fruits and  Produce.

We solicit correspondence with both buy­
ers and sellers of all kinds of  fruits,  ber­
ries and produce.

SAGINAW,  E.  Side,  MICH.

AND

6  and  8  Erie St., GRAND  RAPIDS.

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the strike is ended, 
differences are mended 
all is serene, 
everything is clean, 
cigars will take a boom 
your dealer has not the 
ask him
he will have them.

THE LUSTIG CIGAR CO.

J.  LUSTIG, State Agent.

S . A .  M o r  m a n

Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

WHOLESALE 
L I M E ,

Akron, Buffalo and Louisville

C B M B N T S ,

Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, 
EIRE  BRICK  AND  CLAY.

Write  for Prices.

20  LYON ST., 

-  GRAND  RAPID S.

FOOBH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A  J.  B o w n e , President.

D. A. 

CAPITAL, 

i  d g e t t, Vice-President.

H.  W.  Nash, Cashier
-  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general banking business.

Hake a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

THE  LEARNED  GROCER.

Dried  Currants.

He  Says  There  is  No  Such  Thing’  as 
“Mother wants a  pound  of  dried  cur­
rants,”  said  a  little  girl  who came  into 
the learned grocer’s store the  other  day.
“I  hain’t  got  a  dried  currant  in  the 
store,  and  there hain’t  been  one  in  the 
city,” replied  the  grocer.  “But 1 know 
what you want,  and  I’ve got ’em.”  The 
learned  grocer  brought  forth  a  box  of 
the little  sticky,  sugary, dried fruit pop­
ularly known as dried currants, and used 
in fruit cake,  plum puddings, mince pies, 
buns and the like.

“Why,  them’s ’em!”  said the little girl.
“Yes,  them’s ’em.”  assented  the  gro­
cer,  and if the Grecian  maiden who  trod 
this particular lot of  fruit into the pack­
age had  used a  little  water  on  her  feet 
before she  began,  there would not  be so 
much  sand  and  grit  in ’em as  there  is. 
She  must  have  been  having  a  regular 
hoe-down on the classic  sands before she 
began  to  dance  on  this  box  of  fruit. 
There, sissy, tell  your  mother  she  must 
bathe ’em  in  several  waters  before  she 
uses ’em, or she might just as well put  a 
lot of sand-paper in her fruit cake.  And 
tell her they ain’t dried currants,either.”
“What’s  the  reason  they  ain’t  dried 
currents?” asked a disputative customer.
“They ain’t  dried  currants  any  more 
than  they’re  dried  pumpkins!”  replied 
the  grocer. 
“The  reason  they  ain’t 
dried currants is  that they  weren’t  cur­
rants  before  they  were  dried.  That’s 
reason enough ain’t  it?”

“ Yes,”  said the  customer,  less  dispu­
tative.  “ But what  does  everybody  call 
’em dried currants for?”

“Cause they  don’t  know  any  better!” 
replied the grocer.  “They’ll go right  on 
coming in here and  asking for dried cur­
rants just the  same after I  tell  ’em  why 
they ain’t  dried currants as  they did  be­
fore.”

“What should they ask for,  then?”  in­

quired the customer.

“If any man should ever  come in  here 
and  ask  for  dried  corinths,”  said  the 
grocer,  “he  would  not  necessarily  be  a 
gentleman, but I bet on him  for  being  a 
scholar.  Dried  corinths 
is  what  you 
should ask for when  you  want this little 
sugar-coated,  gritty  raisin,  for 
its  a 
raisin, pure and simple.”

“How’s that?” the  customer wanted to 

know.

“Because  it was a grape before it  was 
dried,”  said  the  grocer,  “and  if  dried 
grapes ain’t  raisins,  what  are they?”

“But you  said  these  were  dried  cor- 
“What’s  a 

iuths!”  said  the  customer. 
corinth,  anyhow?”

“A  corinth  is the smallest grape  that 
grows,”  replied the grocer,  and it lost its 
name years and years ago, because it was 
gradually corrupted  into currant,  which 
became the name  of the acidulated  little 
berry  of  our  garden,  which  you  might 
dry  from now  until  Gabriel  sounds  his 
horn  without  getting  it  any  nearer  the 
condition of a raisin than a pea is.  This 
litttle grape grows all over the islands of 
the  Grecian  archipelago,  and  was  first 
exported from  Corinth,  and  that’s  what 
gave  it  its  name.  The  bunches  don’t 
grow  much  bigger  than  a  stem  of  red 
currants, and  they  are  so  full  of  sugar 
that when they  are picked and  dried  in 
the sun  they actually seem  to  melt  and 
run together,  and it  takes a good deal of 
care and  labor to  separate  them  again. 
After  they  are  separated  is  the  time 
when the  Grecian maiden  gets her  work

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

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in on  them,  for it is  one of her  pleasant 
duties to  jump  on  a  heap  of the  sticky 
fruit with her bare feet until she has com­
pressed  enough  of  the  little  raisins  to 
pile three boxes  into one.  No hydraulic 
press could do it any better. 
If it could, 
we wouldn’t  have the sand  and  grit  the 
maidens’  feet  mingle  with 
the  fruit, 
without which no dried corinths are gen­
uine.

“Still,  I shall  expect folks  to come  in 
here and ask  for  dried  currants just the 
same,”  said  the  learned  grocer,  as  he 
went to wait on a new customer.

The Wrong Way to Educate Boys.
Every  moralist  hard  up  for  a  theme 
asks at  intervals:  “What  is  the  matter 
with  the  sons  of  our  rich  and  great 
men?”  The  question  is  followed  by 
statistics concerning the  wickedness and 
bad endings of such sons.
The trouble  with the  moralists is that 
they  put  the  question  wrong  end  first. 
There is nothing  wrong with  these  fool­
ish  sons, except  that they  are  unlucky. 
But there is something  altogether wrong 
with their fathers.
Suppose that a fine specimen of  an old 
deerhound,  very  successful  in  his  busi­
ness,  should  collect  untold  deer  in  a 
small  park,  fatten  them  up  and  say to 
his  puppies:  “Here,  boys,  I’ve  had  a 
hard life catching these deer, and I mean 
to see.you enjoy yourselves. 
I’m so used 
to racing through the woods and hunting 
that I can’t get out of  the  habit,  but you 
boys  just pile  into that  park  and  help 
yourselves.”  Such a deerhound  as  that 
would  be scorned by every human father. 
The  human father  should  say to such a 
dog:  “Mr.  Hound,  you’re  simply  ruin­
ing these puppies.  Too  much meat  and 
no exercise will give them the mange and 
seventeen  other troubles,  and  if  distem­
per  doesn’t  kill 
them  they  will  be  a 
knock-kneed,  watery-eyed 
lot  of  dis­
graces to you.  For  heaven’s  sake,  keep 
them down to dog biscuit and work them 
hard.”
That  same  human  father  does  with 
great  pride the very thing  that he would 
condemn in a dog or a cat.  He ruins his 
children,  and  then when he gets old pro­
fusely  and  sadly  observes  that  he  has 
done  everything  for  them,  and  yet they 
have disappointed him.  The fat, useless 
pug  dogs  which  young  women  drag 
wheezing about at the ends of strings are 
not to blame for  their condition,  and the 
same  thing  is  true of  rich  men’s  sous. 
The young women who overfeed the dogs 
and the  fathers who  ruin  the sons  have 
themselves to thank.
No  man  would  advocate  the  thing, 
perhaps,  but  who  can  doubt  that a law 
making  it  impossible for  a  man  to  in­
herit anything  but a good  education and 
a good  constitution,  would  supply us  in 
short  order  with  a  better  lot  of  men? 
Look at race  horses.  The  best of  those 
are the descendants of the best that went 
before  them.  But  imagine  the  descen­
dants of winning sires enabled  to  spend 
in oats  or  otherwise at their  own  sweet 
will  all  the  winnings  of  their  daddies. 
What  would  become  of  the  turf?  We 
should  have to go to the  farm wagons to 
find  our  racers  and  trotters,  as  we  go 
now  to  farms  and  log  cabins  for  our 
Presidents and  such.  There is no doubt 
j that as things are the human race doesn’t 
have half  a chance to prove  what  it  can 
do. 

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Good Report from South Boardman.
South  Boaiidm an,  Aug.  17— South 
Boardman is  beautifully  situated on  the 
line of the G.  R.  & I.  Railway.  The town 
has three  good water  powers and  is  the 
center  of  the  great  hardwood  belt  of 
Northern  Michigan.  Our  business  men 
have never offered a bonus as  an induce­
ment to locate factories here, but the  fa­
cilities and advantages  of the place have 
been  sufficient  to  attract  what  factories 
we have, and there is still room for more.
Our  business  men  have  subscribed 
SI,000  to  assist  John  Edmonston  to  re­
build his handle  factory, which  was  de­
stroyed by fire Aug. 3.  The new factory 
will  be ready  for  occupancy  as  soon  as 
the necessary machinery  can be secured.

BUILT  FOR  BUSINESS

Do you want to do your customers justice?
Do yon want to increase your trade in a safe way?
Do you want the confidence of  all who trade with you?
Would  you  like to rid  yourself  of  the  bother of  “posting” your  books  and 
Do you  not  want  pay for all  the  small  items  that go  out of  your  store,  which 

“patching up” pass-book accounts?
yourself and clerks are so prone to forget to charge?

Did you  ever have a pass-book  account  foot  up and  balance  with the  corres­

ponding ledger account without having  to  “doctor”  it?
Do  not  many of  your  customers  complain that  they have  been  charged  for 
items they never  had,  and is not your  memory a little  clouded  as  to whether they 
have or not?

Then  why  not  adopt a system of  crediting  that  will  abolish  all  these  and a 
hundred other objectionable features of  the old  method,  and  one  that  establishes 
a CASH  BASIS  of  crediting?
A new era  dawns,  and  with it new  commodities for its  new demands;  and  all 

enterprising merchants should keep abreast with the times and adopt either the

Tradesman  or  Superior  Goilpons.

COUPON  BOOK  ys. PASS  BOOK.

We beg leave to call  your  attention to 
our coupon book and ask you to carefully 
It takes  the  place 
consider  its  merits. 
of  the  pass  book  which  you  now hand 
your customer and ask him to bring each 
time  he  buys  anything,  that  you  may 
enter  the  article  and  price  in  it.  You 
know  from  experience that  many times 
the  customer  does  not  bring the  book, 
and,  as  a  result,  you  have  to  charge 
many  items  on  your  book  that  do  not 
appear on the customer’s pass book. This 
is sometimes  the  cause of  much ill  feel­
ing  when  bills  are  presented.  Many 
times the pass  book is lost, thus  causing 
considerable 
trouble  when  settlement 
day  comes.  But  probably  the  most  se­
rious objection to the pass book system is 
that many  times while  busy  waiting  on 
customers  you  neglect  to  make  some 
charges,  thus  losing  many  a  dollar:  or, 
if  you  stop to make  those  entries,  it  is 
done when  you can  illy afford  the time, 
as  you  keep  customers  waiting  when it 
might be avoided.  The aggregate amount 
of  time consumed in a month  in  making 
these small  entries  is  no inconsiderable 
thing,  but,  by  the  use  of  the  coupon 
system,  it is avoided.
Now as to the use of the  coupon book: 
Instead of giving your customer the pass 
book,  you hand him a coupon  book,  say 
of the denomination  of  $10,  taking  his 
note  for  the  amount.  When  he  buys 
anything,  he  hands  you  or  your  clerk 
the  book,  from  which  you 
tear  out 
coupons for the amount  purchased,  be  it 
1  cent, 12 cents,  75  cents  or  any  other 
sum.  As the book never  passes  out  of 
your customer’s hands,  except when you 
tear off the coupons,it is just like so much 
money to him,  and when the coupons are 
all gone, and he has had  their  worth  in 
goods, there is  no  grumbling  or  suspi­
cion of wrong  dealing. 
In  fact,  by the 
use of the coupon book,  you have all  the 
advantages of both  the  cash  and .credit 
systems and none  of  the  disadvantages 
of either.  The coupons  taken  in,  being 
put into the cash drawer,  the  aggregate 
amount of them, together with the  cash, 
shows at once  the  day’s  business.  The 
notes,  which are  perforated  at  one  end 
so that they can be readily detached from 
the book,  can  be  kept  in  the  safe  or 
money drawer until the  time has arrived

for the makers to  pay  them.  This  ren­
ders unnecessary  the keeping of accounts 
with each customer and  enables  a  mer­
chant to avoid the friction  and  ill  feel­
ing incident to the use of the pass  book. 
As the notes bear  interest after a certain 
date,  they  are  much  easier  to  collect 
than book  accounts,  being  ¡trivia  facie 
evidence of indebtedness  in any court of 
j law or equity.
One of the stroug points of  the coupon 
system is  the  ease  with  which  a  mer­
chant is enabled  to  hold  his  customers 
| down to a certain  limit of  credit.  Give 
some men a pass book and a line  of  $10, 
and they will  overrun  the  limit  before 
you discover it.  Give them a ten  dollar 
coupon book,  however,  and  they  must 
necessarily stop when they have obtained 
goods to that amount.  It  then rests with 
the merchant to determine whether he will 
issue  another  book  before  the  one  al­
ready  used is paid for.
in many localities  merchants  are  sell­
ing  coupon  books  for  cash  in  advance, 
giving a discount of from 2 to 5 per cent, 
for advance payment.  This is especially 
pleasing  to  the  cash  customer,  because 
it gives him an advantage over the patron 
who  runs  a  book  account  or  buys  on 
credit.  The hash man  ought to have  an 
advantage  over the credit  customer,  and 
this  is easily  accomplished  in  this  way 
without making  any actual  difference in 
the  prices of  goods—a  thing which  will 
always create dissatisfaction and loss.
Briefly stated, the coupon system is pref­
erable to  the pass book  method because it 
(1) saves the time consumed in recording 
the  sales on  the pass  book  and  copying 
same in blotter, day book and  ledger;  (2) 
prevents  the  disputing  of  accounts;  (.3) 
puts the obligation In the form of a note, 
which is prima facie evidence of  indebt­
edness;  (4)  enables  the  merchant to col­
lect  interest on overdue notes,  which  he 
is unable to do with ledger  accounts;  (5) 
holds  the customer  down to the  limit of 
credit established  by the  merchant, as it 
is almost  impossible to do  with the  pass 
book.
Are  not  the  advantages  above  enu­
merated sufficient to warrant a trial of the 
coupon  system? 
If  so, order  from  the 
largest  manufacturers of  coupons in the 
country and address your letters to

G R A N D   R A P I D S .

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T T L A D E S M A J S T .

A  Born Lawyer.

A lawyer advertised for a clerk.  The 
next  morning  his  office  was  crowded 
with  applicants—all  bright  and  many 
suitable.  He  bade  them  wait  until  all 
should arrive, then ranged them in a row 
and said he would tell them a story, note 
their  comments,  and  judge  from  that 
whom he should choose.
“A certain farmer,” began the lawyer, 
“ was troubled  with a  red  squirrel  that 
got  in through  a  hole  in  his  barn  and 
stole his seed corn.  He resolved to  kill 
the  squirrel  at  the  first  opportunity. 
Seeing him go  in the hole  one  noon,  he 
took  his  shot-gun  and  fired  away;  the 
first shot set the barn on fire.”
“Did the barn burn?”  said  one  of  the 
boys.
The  lawyer,  without  answer,  contin­
ued:  “ And seeing  the  barn on fire,  the 
farmer seized a pail  of water and ran  to 
put it out.”

“Did he put it out?” said another.
“As he passed inside,  the  door shut to 
and the barn was soon in  flames.  When 
the  hired  girl -rushed  out  with  more 
water—”
“Did they all burn up?”  said  another 
boy.
The lawyer went on  without answer: 
“Then the  old  lady  came  out  and  all 
was noise  and  confusion,  and  everyone 
was trying to put out the fire.”

“Did anyone burn up?” said another. 
The  lawyer  said: 

“There,  that  will 
do; you  have all  shown great interest  in 
the  story.  But  observing  one 
little 
bright-eyed  fellow  in  deep  silence,  he 
said:  “Now,  my  little  man,  what  have 
you to say?”
The little fellow blushed, grew uneasy 
and stammered  out:
“I want to know  what became of  that 
squirrel; that’s what I want to know.” 
“You’ll do,” said the  lawyer;  “you are 
my man; you  have not been  switched off 
by the  confusion,  and the  barn burning, 
and the hired girls and water pails.  You 
have kept your eye on the squirrel.”

They  Speak  for  Themselves.

No more  flattering  letters of  commen­
dation were ever received by any jobbing 
house  than  several  recently  received 
from the customers of the Hazeltine & Per­
kins Drug Co.,  fac  simile  reproductions 
of which appear on the drug page of this 
issue  of  T h e  T radesm an.  They  prove 
conclusively  that  the house  in  question 
stands well with  the trade—in fact,  that 
its reputation for  good  quality  of  goods 
and prompt  shipment  of  orders  is  fully 
deserved and very generally appreciated. 
The 
letters  published  to-day  will  be 
followed  by  others  from  druggists  in 
other portions of the State, all  testifying 
to the same effect and  exhibiting a spirit 
of  courtesy  and 
friendliness  which 
speaks more than  volumes of  self praise 
would for the popularity of the  house.

A  Curious  Accident.

A  large  pin-oak  log was  being  sawed 
at Jesse Cox’s sawmill, at this place,  says 
the  Seymour,  Ind., correspondent of  the 
Lumber  Worker,  when  the  saw  struck 
some hard  substance  with a clash.  The 
engine was  stopped  and the  side of  the 
log was chopped  into and a whole horse­
shoe was  found,  the  outer end of  which 
had been struck by the saw.  The writer 
examined  the  find  this  morning.  The 
tree  had  been  sawed  down  in  the  old 
fair grounds in the northeast part  of  the 
city.  The shoe was  located about  three 
feet  from  the end of  the  log,  and  there 
were twenty-six  distinct  yearly growths 
over the outside part of  the shoe, so that 
it is safe to say that  the  shoe was  nailed 
to the tree for a hitching place for horses 
not less than forty  years  ago.  The out­
side of the tree was smoothly grown over, 
and  there  was  nothing  to  indicate  the 
hidden  shoe save  an  indistinct snarl  in 
the bark.  The saw had to be sent off for 
repairs.______________________ __

Michigan f TEHTRÄL

“ The Niagara Falls Route.’*

DXPABT.  A RRIV E
Detroit Express....................................6:S0 a  m  10:£0pm
A:? i  p “
Mixed  ....................................................f  
Day  Express........................................  1:20 p m  10:00 a m
»Atlantic A Pacific E xpress.............11:16 p m 
6:00 a m
New York Express...............................5:40 p m  18:40 p m

trains to and from  Detroit. 
Express to  and  from   Detroit.

•Dally. 
All o ther daily except Sunday.
Sleeping:  cars  run  on  A tlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
, _
P arlor cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
Fred M. Briggs, G eni  Agent. 85 Monroe St.
G. S. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Gko. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W .R uoglk8,G. P.  A  T. Agent., Chicago.

_ _ 

—

• 

TIME  TABLE

NOW IN  EFFECT.

D etroit
- m m t m
Milwaukee

railway

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave  itNo.  14 tNo.  16jtNo.  18j*No.  28
1 '20am  3 45pm 10 55pm 
6 50am 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
11 25am  4 52pm 12 37am
T 45am
Ionia...........Ar
1 55am 
17am  5 40pm 
St.  Johns  ...Ar 
8 28am
3 15am
1 20pm  6 40pm 
Owosso........Ar I
9 15am
3 ( Opm  8 45pm 
E.  Saginaw.. Ar 111 05am
3 45pm  9 35pm
Bay City......Ar  11 55am
3 40pm  800 pm 
F lin t...........Ar  1110am
6 00pm 110 30pm 
Pt.  Huron...Ar  305pm
305pm  8 55pm
Pontiac....... Ar  10 57am
4 05pm|  9 50pm
Detroit........ Arili 5'am

5 40am 
7 35am 
5 50am 
7  0am

WESTWARD.

Trains Leave 
G’d Rapids,  Lv 
G’d Haven,  Ar 
Mllw’kee Str  “ 
Chicago Str.  “

i*No. 81 ItNo. 11
7 05am  1  00pm
8 50am  2 15pm

tNo. 13 ItNo. 15
5  10pm 10 30pm
6 15pm 11 30pm
6 45am  6 45am 
6 00am|...........

♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:60 p. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m.
Trains  arrive from  the west, 6:45 a.  m.,  10:10 
a. m., 3:35 p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward—No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J o h n W. L o u d , Traffic Manager.
B en F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agent. 
J as. Ca m p b e l l, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

Grand  Rapids  A Indiana.

In  effect  July  it, 1891.
T RA IN S  Som e  NORTH.

Arrive from   Leave going 
North.
7:05 a  m
1:30 a m
11:30 a m
4:30 p m
p m 5:05  p m
10 .SO p m
Train  arriv in g  a t 6:50  daily;  all  o th er  trains  dally 

South. 
For Saginaw ft Big Rapids......... 
For Traverse City ft Mackinaw 
5:50 a  m 
For  Traverse  City ft Mackinaw  9:15 a m  
For Saginaw ,.................................  
F or Traverse C ity..........................   2:16 
Fo (Mackinaw City.......................  8:!5 p m 
except Sunday.

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

North. 

Arrive from   Leave going 
South.
a m   7:00  a m
10:30  a m
2:00  p m
5:00  p m
10:30  p m
Train  leaving fo r Cincinnati  and  Chicago  a t  10:30 

For  C incinnati...............................   5:00 
For Kalamazoo and  C hicago...  10:20 a m  
From Big Rapids ft Saginaw ....   11 -.50 a  m
For F o rt W ayne and the  E ast.. 
For  Ft. W ayne..............................  5:25 p m  
For Cincinnati and Chicago....  10:00 p m  
From  Saginaw.................................10:40 p m
p m  daily;  all o ther train s daily except Sunday.

For Mnskegon—Leave. 

Maskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
7:00 a m  
12:45 p m  
5:30 p m  

From  Muskegon—Arrive.
10:10 a m
5:15 p m
10:15 p m

SLEEPING  ft  PARLOR  CAR  SERVICE. 

N O R T H —7 : 3 0   a m   t r a i n . —Sleeping and  parlor 
chair car.  G rand  Rapids to Mackinaw City. 
P arlor  chair car  Grand  Rapids to Traverse 
Oity.
1 1 :3 0   a  m  t r a i n . —P arlor chair  car  G’d 
Rapids to Mackinaw.
1 0 :3 0   p   m   t r a i n . —Sleeping  c a r  Grand 
Rapids  £6  Petoskey.  Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids to   Mackinaw City.
SOUTH—7 : 0 0  am  t r a i n . —P arlor ehalr ear Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.
1 0 :3 0   a m   t r a i n . —W agner  P arlor  Car 
Grand Rapids  to  Chicago.
1 0 :3 0   p  in   t r a i n . —Sleeping  Car  Grand 
Rapids  to  Chicago.  Sleeping  car  Grand 
Rapids to Cincinnati.

Chicago via G. R.  & I. R. R.

10:30 a m  
8:55 p m  

Lv Grand  Rapids 
A rr Chicago 

10:30 p m
6:50 a m
10:30 a  m train  through W agner P arlor Car.
10:30 p m train  daily, through W agner  Sleeping Car. 
6:50 afm
3:10  p  m  through  W agner  P arlor  Car.  10:10  p  m 

3:10 p m  
Lv  Chicago 
A rr Grand Rapids 
8:50 p m  
tra in  daily, through W agner Sleeping Car.

2:00 p m  
9:00 p m  

7:05 a m  
2:15 p m  

10:10 p m

Through tickets and full inform ation  can  be had by 
calling upon A. Almquist,  tick et  agent  a t  Union Sta­
tion,  or  George  W.  Munson,  Union  Ticket  Agent, 07 
Monroe street. G rand Rapids, Mich.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  St  North  Michigan 

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

0. L. LOCKWOOD,

Railway.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk  e 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  betwe  ii 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.
Lv. Grand Rapids at......7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t............... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

VIA D., L. A N.

v ia  d „  e . H.  a si.

Lv. Grand Rapids a t......6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. m.
Ar. Toledo at................1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

Return connections equally as good.

W.  H.  B e n n e t t, General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

EDMUND B.0IKEIBN
Watch JMer

THE GREAT

n Jeweler,
ffliali.

44  CÄNRL  8T„
Grani Rapids  ■ 

W A N T E D .

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If yon have any  of  the  above  goods to 
ship, or anything  in the Produce  line, let 
ns hear  from yon.  Liberal cash advances 
made when desired.

E A R L   B R O S . ,

C o m m is s io n   M e r c h a n t s

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  Fibbt  National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rapids.

A N Y T H IN G

T O O   L A T B

That he has allowed his money to leak away.

That will help a man in his business ought to be 
of. vital importance to him.  Many a successful  mer­
chant has found  w hen

And  the  quicker you  tumble to the fact  that the  old way of 
keeping it  is  n o t  good  enough ,  the  more of  it  you 
will have to count up.

-M o n ey -Won’t take Gare of Itself.
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY

Manufactured  in  our  establishment—“ Tradesman,”  “ Super­
ior” or “ Universal”—and  put  your business on a cash  basis.

{T^oupop  g y step is

If  you  wish to stop all the leaks  incident to the  mercan­

tile  business, adopt one of the

For Sumplas and  Price  List,  address

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

DEPART FOR

CHICAGO

JUNE  21,1891.
&  WEST  MICHIGAN  RY.
A. M.  1  P. M.  !  F. M. P.M.
t10:00|  +1:15 *11:35
+10:00]  +1:15¡  11:35
+10:00  +1:15*11:35 86:30
+10:00  +1:15*11:35 *6:30
+7:25  +5:25 *11:30
+9:00]  +1:15;+  5:40 +6:30
t7:25  t5 :2 5 l..........
+7:25  + 5 :2 5 ..........
+7:25¡  +5:25 
. . . .
+9:00|  tl: 1 6 |t   5:40 +6:30

Chicago...........
Indianapolis ... 
Benton Harbor.
St. Joseph........
Traverse  City..
Muskegon........
Manistee  ........
Ludington......
Big Rapids......
Ottawa Beach..
tWeek Days.  »Daily.  §Except Saturday.
10:00
1:15
5:25
11:35

A. M. has through chair car to Chica­
go.  No extra charge for seats.
P. M.  runs  through to Chicago  solid 
with Wagner buffet car;  sea s  50 cts. 
P. M. has  through free  chair  car  to 
Manistee,  via M.  & N. E. R. R.
P. M. is solid  train  with Wagner pal­
ace sleeping  car  through to Chicago, 
and sleeper  to  Indianapolis via Ben­
ton Harbor.
P.  M.  has  Wagner  Sleeping  Car  to 
11:30
Traverse City.
6.Q A   P.  M.  connects  at  St.  Joseph  with 
•DU  Graham & Morton’s steamers for Chi­

cago.
DETROIT,

DEPART  FOR

JUNE  21,  1891.
Lansing & Northern R R
A. M. P. M. P. M.
+6:50 +1:00 *6:25
+6:50 +1:00 *6:25
+6:50 +1:00 *6:25
+6:50 +1:00 *6:25
+7:05 +4:30
+7:05 +4:30
+7:06 +4:30

Detroit...................................
Lansing................................
Howell...................................
Lowell....................................
Alma......................................
6.fTA  A  M. runs through to Detroit with par- 
• t l v   lor car;  seats 25  cents.
1 ,/V l  P. M. - Has  through  Parlor  car  to  De- 
• v v  troit.  Seats, 25 cents.
P. M. runs through to Detroit with par 
A. M. has parlor  car  to  Saginaw, seats 
7:05
25 cents.
For  tickets  and  Information  apply  at Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, or Union station.

i l o r  car, seats  25  cents.

Geo. DeHaven, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

---- OR----

P A M P H L E T S

For the beet work, at  reasonable prices, address 

THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

